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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, 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⟩had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Did Jacob rejoice to see a waggon or a chariot that would carry him into Egypt to see his Son Joseph, and wilt not thou rejoice to think that death is a chariot to carry thee to Jesus Christ, to carry thee to heaven? O therefore let not thy heart be troubled to dye, because death is but a chariot to carry thee to heaven? Is Christ gone into heaven?
First, is Christs body now in heaven? then I infer; O thou that canst lay a well-grounded clayme 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-doore to let thee into endlesse joy where Christ is, why should wee bee as children to looke on death as a Bugheare, but looke upon death as being a passage unto thy fathers house, as being a Trap-doore 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 hee had said unto them, and when hee saw the waggons which Joseph ⟨p. 123⟩had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Did Jacob rejoyce to see a waggon or a chariot that would carry him into Aegypt to see his Son Ioseph, and wilt not thou rejoyce to think that death is a chariot to carry thee to Jesus Christ, to carry thee to heaven? O therefore let not thy heart bee troubled to dye, because death is but a chariot to carry thee to heaven? Is Christ gone into heaven?