A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.
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- A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.
- Author
- Gilbert, Thomas, 1613-1694.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Nath. Hiller,
- 1695.
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- Subject terms
- Sin.
- Forgiveness of sin.
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"A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42736.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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THE PREFACE.
THE Light held out in these Papers is accounted so clear and so useful, that it hath been thought great Pity it hath not been set up upon a Candlestick. They have pas∣sed up and down in Manuscript about Thirty Years, being much valued by those who were Possessors of them. It is Credibly reported that a very great and Learned Man (whom for some Reasons I will not name, though his Commendation would have great weight with Persons of different per∣swasions) did upon the perusal of them, speak to the Learned Author to this purpose, That it was worth a Mans Living a great while,
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though he did nothing else but bring forth such a Composure. The Subjects Treated on are so weigh∣ty and of such concernment, that any contribution of Light therein ought to find Acceptance, and be rejoyced in by all. The manner of this Au∣thors Treating on them is succinct and plain, and wholly unoffensive. The Differences and Contests about these Points, which have of late ap∣peared among us, do further recom∣mend them and the Publishing of them as very seasonable at this Jun∣cture. The Blessing of God go a∣long with them. So prayeth
L. R.