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The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin…
The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the priviledge of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1657
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Again secondly, he would not have them troubled because of his departure; because saith he, I do not intend to go to my Father alone, but intend for to have all you with me, though you shall not go with me now. Though ⟨p. 114⟩you shall not die with me now, though you shall not go to Heaven with me now, yet you shall be with me another day, In my Fathers house there are many mansions, I do not intend to go to heaven alone, for there is room for you as well as for me, and room for every believer in the world. Heaven first is a Mansion, a place which notes a duration of Saints in Heaven, Heaven is not a moveable place, but a Mansion, an abiding place.
Againe secondly, he would not have them troubled because of his departure; because saith he, I do not intend to go to my Father alone, but intend for to have all you with me, though you shall not go with me now. Though ⟨p. 114⟩you shall not die with me now, though you shall not go to Heaven with me now, yet you shall be with me another day, In my Fathers house there are many mansions, I do not intend to go to heaven alone, for there is room for you as well as for me, and room for every beleever in the world. Heaven first is a Mansion, a place which notes a duration of Saints in Heaven, Heaven is not a moveable place, but a Mansion, an abiding place.
Again, there are many Mansions in Heaven, there is room enough for Christ, for his eleven Apostles, and room enough for all the Believers in the world, it notes the largeness and amplitude of heaven, Heb. 11. 12. therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea shore innumerable: And besides these there is an innumerable company of Angels, Heb. 12. 22. To this add