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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Ninthly and lastly, To make his sin out of measure sinful, David continued under this sin with all these aggravations for nine months together without repentance or remorse of conscience. I do not name this to bolster any man in sin; I only mention this for a distressed conscience, that though thy sin be an aggravated and a great sin, clothed with many hideous and heinous circumstances; ⟨p. 116⟩[…] ⟨p. 117⟩[…] ⟨p. 118⟩yet God did forgive such a sin as that, and therefore well may David say, The Lord forgave the iniquity of my sin, not only sin, Inst. but the iniquity of sin.
Ninethly and lastly, To make his sin out of measure sinfull, David continued under this sin with all these aggravations for nine moneths together without repentance or remorse of conscience. I doe not name this to boulster any man in sin; I onely mention this for a distressed conscience, that though thy sin bee an aggravated and a great sin, cloathed with many hideous and heynous circumstances; ⟨p. 116⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 117⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 118⟩yet God did forgive such a sin as that, and therefore well may David say, The Lord forgave the iniquity of my sin, not onely sin, Inst. but the iniquity of sin.
A second instance is of Peter, you all know the story, but it may be you have not looked narrowly into the circumstances that made Peters sin to be great. In Peters sin,