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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.
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,
Lastly, Christ went to heaven eminently and singly; There are three bodies in heaven, there is the bodie of Enoch, the body of Elias, and the body of Christ, all else in heaven are onely Saints and Angels; Enoch went to heaven bodily as a type of Christs ascension before the Law, and Elias unde the Law and Christ under the Gospell. Divines say, that this shewes there was salvation by Christ before the Law▪ and salvation by Christ under the Law, and salvation by Christ in the time of the Gospell, but there is difference between their going to heaven,
First, Enoch and Elijah went to heaven, but they did not die and rise from the dead, and then ascend into heaven, but first Christ dyed, and then Christ was raised out of the Grave, and then within forty days he did ascend into heaven, there was one difference. Again, they did not ascend to heaven by their own strength, but by the power of God, they did ascend into heaven, but we have got no good by their ascension, no benefit nor merit accrues unto us by their being in heaven, but there ⟨p. 126⟩is great benefit redounding to us by Christs being in heaven, for saith Christ, I go to Heaven to prepare a place for you.
First, Enoch and Elias went to heaven, but they did not die and rise from the dead, and then ascend into heaven, but first Christ dyed, and then Christ was raised out of the Grave, and then within forty daies hee did ascend into heaven, there was one difference. Again, they did not ascend to heaven by their own strength, but by the power of God, they did ascend into heaven, but we have got no good by their ascension, no benefit nor merit accrues unto us by their being in heaven, but there