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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doct. 1 The first Doctrine, That Christs Ascension or going up to Heaven, is a ground of comfort and great advantage to all Gods people whilst they dwell here upon the earth.
In the handling of this point there are three particulars.
First, I shall prove it to you by Scripture, that Christ is bodily gone into Heaven, I prove it by these five arguments in Scripture.
First, by the Types that were before the Law, Enoch was translated and taken up bodily into Heaven, where now he is. Gen. 5. 24. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, this is confirmed by the Apostle, Heb. 11. 5. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, That he pleased God. And under the Law, Elijah was taken up in a fiery Chariot,