True penitential confession
- True pentitence is free and voluntary, not forced, nor reluctantly squeezed out, like Pharoh’s and Saul’s confession of sin.
- True penitential confession is full and complete. Contrast that of Judas, who confessed his betrayal of innocent blood but not his covetousness.
- True penitential confession is sincere, springing from the impressons of grace on the soul.
- True penitential confession is distinct and not confused; in it offenders confess their sins wholesale and in detail, as David confessed his particular sins of adultery and blood-guiltiness.
- The true pentitent confesses the circumstances and aggravations of his lapse.
- The true penitent is sorrowful, coming before God as Benhadad’s servants came, with ropes about their necks. “Penitential tears are undeniable ambassadors.”
- True penitential confession is always mixed with faith, though not always with strong faith.
- True penitence is accompanied by reformation of life. [Thomas Brooks]
On excommunication
The proper inward effect that accompanies this ordinance is inward affliction and distress of conscience by Satan, which of all afflictions is the greatest punishment…This we see in the excommunication of the Corinthian; whose excommunication is said to be a delivering up unto Satan in the Name of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor 5:4f.) He was going to be cast out by a commission from Christ, which going forth in His Name, when they published it on earth, He signed it in Heaven. It was with much lamentation and sore trouble this sentence was passed on offenders. [Goodwin]
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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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