The necessity of acknowledgement of offences, in order to reconciliation. Set forth in a…The necessity of acknowledgment of offences, in order to reconciliation. Set forth in a…

USE IV. Of EXHORTATION.

To acknowledge your Offences. I have no reason to urge you to acknowledge any thing for offences that are not offences, but what is indeed Sin should be acknowledged whether it be little or great, whether it be personal or Public: whatever estimation others have of it, there is no reason that you should bear up your up your selves in any thing that is offensive to God: the want of this has been the great Wound of the Country. Jer. 3.13. Only acknowledge thine Offence. This is that which prolongs our sorrows, let ⟨p. 30⟩men reason never so long, and find out never so many presences, that which is Sin, will be Sin, they can't change the Nature of it, neither can men blind God, with their carnal reasonings; it is abundantly better to fall flat down and acknowledge our Offences. This must be in order to Reconciliation Hos. 5.15

To acknowledge your Offences. I have no reason to urge you to acknowledge any thing for offences that are not offences, but what is indeed Sin should be acknowledged whether it be little or great, whether it be personal or Publick: whatever estimation others have of it, there is no reason that you should bear up your up your selves in any thing that is offensive to God: the want of this has been the great Wound of the Countrey. Jer. 3.13. Only acknowledge thine Offence. This is that which prolongs our sorrows, let ⟨p. 30⟩men reason never so long, and find out never so many presences, that which is Sin, will be Sin, they can't change the Nature of it, neither can men blind God, with their carnal reasonings; it is abundantly better to fall flat down and acknowledge our Offences. This must be in order to Reconciliation