Q. VVhat may comfort a troubled conscience?
A. These things: 1. That God can pardon a∣ny sinne. 2. That he will by promise made, par∣don
A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire.
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- A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire.
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"A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09077.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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euery penitent. 3. That he which feeleth a true desire to leaue sinne, and to please God; is bound to beleeue his sinnes are both pardonable and pardoned. 4. That doubting of saluation, with feare to offend God, is a signe of saluation. 5. No condemnation to such as are in Christ, and there∣fore their sinnes cannot damne them. 6. Iustifica∣tion must not be iudged after sanctification, there is no perfection here, and the best children of God haue grieuously fallen, and haue felt this sting of conscience. 7. The assurance of salua∣tion must not be iudged as men feele assurance in affliction, but by the stabilitie of Gods promises, from former comforts and tokens of grace, but in trouble from present desires onely.