A49255:541
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, the ascension of Christ, it overthrows the opinion of the Carpacratiami that hold, that only his soul did go to heaven, and his body perished as others; and this cannot be, for the Disciples said that they saw Christ ascend, and this must be his body, for they could not see his soul, for the soul is a spirit. Now you see the reason why I spent so much time in the morning in giving you many Texts of Scripture to prove this point: because there are so many Heretics that do oppugn this Doctrine of CHRISTS Ascension. I now come to give you three or four practical deductions.
Fourthly, the ascension of Christ, it overthrowes the opinion of the Carpacratiami that hold, that onely his soule did goe to heaven, and his body perished as others; and this cannot be, for the Disciples said that they saw Christ ascend, and this must bee his body, for they could not see his soule, for the soule is a spirit. Now you see the reason why I spent so much time in the morning in giving you many Texts of Scripture to prove this point: because there are so many Hereticks that doe oppugne this Doctrine of CHRISTS Ascension. I now come to give you three or four practical deductions.
First, is Christs body now in heaven? then I infer; O thou that canst lay a well-grounded claim for an interest in Jesus Christ: O be not thou afraid to dye, because thy Christ is in heaven, and when thou diest, death is but a Trap-door to let thee into endless joy where Christ is, why should we be as children to look on death as a Bugbear, but look upon death as being a passage unto thy fathers house, as being a Trap-door to let thee in where Jesus Christ is, Gen. 45. 25▪ 27. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the Land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father, and they told him all the words of Joseph which he had said unto them, and when he saw the waggons which Joseph ⟨p. 123⟩