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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.
First, this point confuteth the opinion of the Selucians and Hermiani that hold that Christs Body is not in heaven, but that it is in the beautiful and splendent body of the Sun, and they say, that is the reason the Sun doth cast such a glorious light, o'er that the Moon doth; and truly this old Heresy is again revived amongst us, and I have seen it in a book called Divine Light, when indeed it is nothing but darkness; but Christ is above the Sun, Christ is above all the visible Heavens: Christ sits in the third Heaven as Paul calls it; therefore if Christs Body be gone into Heaven, they are in an error.
First, this point confuteth the opinion of the Selucians and Hermiani that hold that Christs Body is not in heaven, but that it is in the beautifull and splendent body of the Sun, and they say, that is the reason the Sun doth cast such a glorious light, o're that the Moon doth; and truly this old Heresie is again revived amongst us, and I have seen it in a booke called Divine Light, when indeed it is nothing but darknesse; but Christ is above the Sun, Christ is above all the visible Heavens: Christ sits in the third Heaven as Paul calls it; therefore if Christs Body bee gone into Heaven, they are in an errour.
Secondly, this point will confute those who hold that Christs Body hath been on Earth, since his ascension into Heaven; some in Germany held, that they were the very Christ, and thus in King Henry the Eights days, there was one held that he was the Christ, and his side was pierced and there was the print of Nails seen in his ⟨p. 122⟩hand, &c. I, but if men say, lo here is Christ, and there is Christ, believe them not, for Christ was never on the Earth since his ascension.
Secondly, this point will confute those who hold that Christs Body hath been on Earth, since his ascension into Heaven; some in Germany held, that they were the very Christ, and thus in King Henry the Eights days, there was one held that hee was the Christ, and his side was pierc'd and there was the print of Nayles seen in his