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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.
Fourthly, there is instruction to be gathered from the manner of Christs leaving the world, the manner was in Act. 1. 9. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight, they saw him by degrees ascend into Heaven, this must not pass our Meditation, that a cloud should take Jesus Christ out of our sight, it is for a relief to your Meditations, that when you see the clouds, to think that these clouds that I see hover in the Heaven, they are Christs Chariot that did once carry him to Heaven, and they are the chariots that shall carry Jesus Christ to judg the world; O labour to have your Meditations on Divine things, he went up in a cloud, therefore the clouds are called Gods Chariots.
Fourthly, there is instruction to be gathered from the manner of Christs leaving the world, the manner was in Act. 1. 9. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight, they saw him by degrees ascend into Heaven, this must not passe our Meditation, that a cloud should take Jesus Christ out of our sight, it is for a reliefe to your Meditations, that when you see the clouds, to thinke that these clouds that I see hover in the Heaven, they are Christs Chariot that did once carry him to Heaven, and they are the chariots that shall carry Jesus Christ to judg the world; O labour to have your Meditations on Divine things, he went up in a cloud, therfore the clouds are called Gods Chariots.
Fifthly, note that circumstance in Christs ascension, that he would call all his Friends about him, it is expressly said all the eleven Apostles were with him, Acts 1. And an Interpreter doth think that there was an hundred and twenty with Jesus Christ, when he ascended up into Heaven, and he gathered it from