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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, Though it be true, that God doth not call a man to pray for those things that are perfectly done so as never to be done again, yet God doth command us to pray for those things that are but imperfectly done. I am not to pray to God to create the world, it is perfectly done, I am not to pray for Election, it is so done as never to be done more. I am not to pray for the incarnation of Christ, Christ is come into the flesh, but though I am not to pray for these things that are so fully and perfectly done; yet I am to pray for those things that are imperfectly done, pardon of sin is an act of God that is still in doing, therefore the Apostle refers pardon, Rom. 3.24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ, Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, though Faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. And as sin is remitted and repented of, it is pardoned; therefore that Reason is not valid to take off men from praying for pardon of sin, the Scripture doth express it, I acknowledge my transgression and thou forgavest, Matth. 6.12. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. That Plot-form ⟨p. 183⟩according to which we are to model our prayers, the Antinomians would evade the Text and pretend, that in that Text and such Scriptures we only pray for a sense and manifestation of pardon in the Conscience, and not for actual exhibition of pardon in regard of God.
First, Though it be true, that God doth not call a man to pray for those things that are perfectly done so as never to bee done again, yet God doth command us to pray for those things that are but imperfectly done. I am not to pray to God to create the world, it is perfectly done, I am not to pray for Election, it is so done as never to be done more. I am not to pray for the incarnation of Christ, Christ is come into the flesh, but though I am not to pray for these things that are so fully and perfectly done; yet I am to pray for those things that are imperfectly done, pardon of sin is an act of God that is still in doing, therefore the Apostle refers pardon,