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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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First, of the Pharisee, in Luk. 18. I thank God, saith he, I am no extortioner, no drunkard, no adulterer; I am not this nor that: the Pharisee was a man that never broke out into scandalous sins; what was the conclusion? saith Christ, that he that justified himself, was not justified; but the Publican ⟨p. 137⟩was justified rather then the Pharisee: the Publican that had fallen into extortion, his office did expose him unto much extortion, which was in allusion to our Custom-house, he was a wicked liver, and yet went away justified. O! a civill honest Pharisee, a Pharisee that never brake out into scandal, yet was not justified: a Publican that was a known and infamous sinner, went away justified.
First, of the Pharisee, in Luk. 18. I thank God, saith he, I am no extortioner, no drunkard, no adulterer; I am not this nor that: the Pharisee was a man that never broke out into scandalous sins; what was the conclusion? saith Christ, that he that justified himself, was not justified; but the Publican ⟨p. 137⟩was justified rather then the Pharisee: the Publican that had fallen into extortion, his office did expose him unto much extortion, which was in allusion to our Custome-house, he was a wicked liver, and yet went away justified. O! a civill honest Pharisee, a Pharisee that never brake out into scandall, yet was not justified: a Publican that was a known and infamous sinner, went away justified.
The prodigal son that ran away from his father, spent all his substance, that is, his gifts, and went to live among hogs and swine, in this world, that is, wicked men, yet this man a pardoned man. The young man who tells you that he kept all Gods Commands from his youth, an unjustified man: yet the Prodigal that was riotous from his youth, became to be a justified man. I am persuaded, the very intent of these Scriptures, is for this end; that civill moral men should not presume on pardon, merely on their civill morality.