A49255:524
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.
Thirdly, Christs going bodily to heaven, it is a ground of comfort to you in this, because Christ is gone bodily into heaven, to perform and accomplish his Sacerdotal Office, that is as a high Priest, he is now in heaven to perform the Office of a high Priest to make intercession to God his Father in your behalf, that your sins might be pardoned, that your souls might be saved, that your bodies might he raised, and received into heaven with him in Glory, Heb. 9. 24. For Christ is not entered into the Holy places made with hands which are the Figures of the true, but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us. Christ is entered into the very heavens, that he might appear before God for us, so in Heb. 7. 26. For such an high Priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled separate from sinners, and made higher then the heavens. It became us to have a high Priest in Heaven. Therefore observe, though it was a great benefit to the Disciples to have Christs bodily presence▪ yet Jesus Christ could never have fulfilled the office of the Priest-hood to make intercession for all the Elect, if Christ had not gone bodily into heaven. Will you observe one Text in Heb. 8▪ 4. For if he were on earth he should not be a priest, seeing there are Priests that offer gifts according to the Law. Christ must go to heaven and there he is a Priest; now if he were upon the earth he could not be a Priest for us, therefore we have great advantage by CHRISTS going into heaven. O beloved, then look on this as a great comfort, that our Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven in his body, flesh and blood, appearing before God, making Intercession for all his people; this was typified out under the Law, Exod. 28. 9, 10, 11, and 12. verses. And thou shalt take two Onyx stones, & grave them on the names of the children ⟨p. 123⟩of Israel. Six of their Names on one stone, and the other six Names of the rest on the other stone, according to their Birth. With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet shalt thou engrave the two stones, with the names of the children of Israel, thou shalt make them to be set in Ouches of Gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the Ephod, for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord, upon his two shoulders for a memorial.