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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.
Secondly, Christ must be taken up into Heaven in his body to make a compensation and a recompense to himself, for his sufferings in his body, Phil. 2. 8, 9. And being found in fashion as a Man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name which is above every Name. Therefore God did exalt Christ and raise him from the dead, and bring him to Heaven, because he obeyed to the death of the Cross, and took on him the form of a servant, Psal. 110. last verse, He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the Head. Because thou diedst and sufferedst, therefore thou shalt lift up thy head, therefore thou shalt ascend up to Heaven, Heb. 2. 9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower then the Angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For suffering of death he was crowned with Glory and Honour, and translated bodily into Heaven, that is a second Argument.
Secondly, Christ must be taken up into Heaven in his body to make a compensation and a recompence to himselfe, for his sufferings in his body, Phil. 2. 8, 9. And being found in fashion as a Man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Crosse. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name which is above every Name. Therefore God did exalt Christ and raise him from the dead, and bring him to Heaven, because he obeied to the death of the Crosse, and took on him the form of a servant, Psal. 110. last verse, He shall drink of the brook in the way, thersfore shall he lift up the Head. Because thou diedst and sufferedst, therefore thou shalt lift up thy head, therefore thou shalt ascend up to Heaven, Heb. 2. 9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower then the Angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should tast death for every man. For suffering of death hee was crowned with Glory and Honour, and translated bodily into Heaven, that is a second Argument.