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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.
I shall now draw out some instructions from some circumstances in Christs going to heaven. There are five circumstances from which you may gather some instruction.
First, from the time when Christ did leave the world and ascend up to go to Heaven, if you read the Evangelists they will tell you it was abbot the 33 year of his Age, he left this world and goeth up to Heaven. Learn thus much from thence, that if Christ would leave the world in the flower of his Age, a young man, then this should be fastened to the Meditation of you young men, that you should not have your hearts too much glued to the world, to hanker after a long life. Suppose God should take thee away now in the flower of thy age, be willing and submissive, for God took Christ away so.
First, from the time when Christ did leave the world and ascend up to goe to Heaven, if you read the Evangelists they will tell you it was abote the 33 year of his Age, he left this world and goeth up to Heaven. Learn thus much from thence, that if Christ would leave the world in the flower of his Age, a young man, then this should be fastened to the Meditation of you young men, that you should not have your hearts too much glued to the world, to hanker after a long life. Suppose God should take thee away now in the flower of thy age, bee willing and submissive, for God tooke Christ away so.
Secondly, you may learn some what from the place whence Christ did ascend, it is very observable: It was Mount Olivet, Acts 1. 12. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath days Journey. Luke saith, it was from Bethany,