2. The Scripture doth no where tell us, that if a man after Humiliation or Repentance fall into the same sin again,
Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Oldfield, James.
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- 1687.
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"Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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he shall not be pardoned, nay we may prove the contrary.
1. God will certainly forgive us as much as we are commanded to forgive our Bro∣ther, 17. Luk. 3, 4. 18. Mat. 21, 22. Now God is much more infinite in mercy than we are, and certainly if God will not li∣mit us any time from forgiving our Bre∣thren, we ought not to limit the mercy of God, as to say if we commit a sin so many times, it shall not be forgiven.
2. There is no sin exempted from par∣don in Scripture, but the sin against the Holy Ghost, and the reason of it is this, that sin shall never be pardoned, because he that commits it can never repent of it. But now a man may repent of his falling again into the self same sin, and therefore that sin may be pardoned, 3. Je∣remiah 12.