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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.
Thirdly, he went to heaven locally, he ascended locally, there are some men that hold, that every place is heaven where God is, that is a truth; but heaven is a distinct place from the Earth and Hell, Christ had a mutation of place from the Earth to the third Heaven, therefore saith he, the earth shall hold me no more.
Thirdly, hee went to heaven locally, hee ascended locally, there are some men that hold, that every place is heaven where God is, that is a truth; but heaven is a distinct place from the Earth and Hell, Christ had a mutation of place from the Earth to the third Heaven, therefore saith hee, the earth shall hold me no more.
Fourthly, he did ascend into heaven powerfully; Indeed other men went to heaven bodily, not by their own strength, but it was by a borrowed strength▪ Elijah had a fiery chariot to carry him to heaven, but Christ had none, for he went to heaven by his own strength.
Fourthly, hee did ascend into heaven powerfully; Indeed other men went to heaven bodily, not by their own strength, but it was by a borrowed strength▪ Elias had a fiery chariot to carry him to heaven, but Christ had none, for he went to heaven by his own strength.
Lastly, Christ went to heaven eminently and singly; There are three bodies in heaven, there is the body of Enoch, the body of Elijah, and the body of Christ, all else in heaven are only Saints and Angels; Enoch went to heaven bodily as a type of Christs ascension before the Law, and Elijah unde the Law and Christ under the Gospel. Divines say, that this shows there was salvation by Christ before the Law and salvation by Christ under the Law, and salvation by Christ in the time of the Gospel, but there is difference between their going to heaven,