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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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And thus the Prodigal in Luk. 18.18. 1I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.
And thus the Prodigall in Luk. 18.18. 1I will arise and goe to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.
Though he was a prodigal, yet he would go to God as to a father. In confession you are to go to God hopefully as to a displeased father: confessions when they come to God as a Judge, create fear, horror, and amazement on the conscience, but when confessions are mingled with hope, and come to God as a father, they work a holy brokenness of heart, a holy tenderness and remorse on the conscience.
Though he was a prodigall, yet he would go to God as to a father. In confession you are to goe to God hopefully as to a displeased father: confessions when they come to God as a Judge, create fear, horror, and amazement on the conscience, but when confessions are mingled with hope, and come to God as a father, they work a holy brokennesse of heart, a holy tendernesse and remorse on the conscience.