Confessing sins-one to another
With men it is confess and have execution, but with God confess and have mercy. We should never lay open our sins but for mercy. So it honors God; and when he is honored,he honors the soul with inward peace and tranquility. We can never have peace in our souls till we have dealt roundly with our sins,and favour them not a whit [bit]; till we have ripened our confession to be a thorough confession. What is the difference between a Christian and another man? Another person slubbers [is careless] over his sin and he thinks if he comes to the congregation, and follows the minister, it will serve the turn [end]But a Christian knows that religion is another manner of matter,another kind of work than so.He must deal thoroughly and seriously,and lay open his sin as the chief enemy in the world,and labor to raise all the hatred he can against it and make it the object of his bitter displeasure, as being that that hath done him more hurt than all the world besides;and so he confess it all the aggravations of hatred and envy that he can…That we in our confessions (in our fastings especially) ought to rank ourselves among the rest of sinners. Perhaps we are not guilty of some sins that they have been guilty of. God has been merciful to us and kept us in obedience in some things. But, alas! There is none of us all but we have had a hand in the sins of the times.[Richard Sibbes]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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