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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
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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 ⟨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.
Thirdly, that Christs Body is now in heaven, it overthrows the Doctrine of the Popish Religion touching Transubstantiation, or the real presence, that Jesus Christ is bodily present at the Sacrament, say the Papists, we bodily eat Christs flesh and drink Christs blood, that Christ is as bodily present at the Sacrament as he was on the Cross; If there were no other argument to overthrow this opinion but this, that the body of Christ is now in Heaven, it were enough, then that opinion of Transubstantiation is hereby confuted, Christs body cannot be in Heaven, and on the earth both at one time.
Thirdly, that Christs Body is now in heaven, it overthrowes the Doctrine of the Popish Religion touching Transubstantiation, or the reall presence, that Jesus Christ is bodily present at the Sacrament, say the Papists, we bodily eat Christs flesh and drinke Christs bloud, that Christ is as bodily present at the Sacrament as hee was on the Crosse; If there were no other argument to overthrow this opinion but this, that the body of Christ is now in Heaven, it were enough, then that opinion of Transubstatiation is hereby confuted, Christs body cannot be in Heaven, and on the earth both at one time.