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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, By way of Representation, Christ is not gone ⟨p. 127⟩to heaven as other men, as a single and a private person; but Christ is gone into heaven as a common and a public person; Christ is gone up to heaven with flesh and blood, and with our natures he is gone to heaven, and he is gone there as a Representer of all the Elect; Jesus Christ is gone to heaven representing the persons of the Elect of God upon the earth. Hence it is that you have a passage, Eph. 2. 6. And hath raised us up together in heavenly places into Jesus Christ. We are not in heavenly places, we are in earthly places, but we do sit in heaven; because Christ is now in heaven, he being gone to heaven as a common and a public person, a Representer of all the elect, Heb. 6. 20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. He did not go there for himself, but for us. Christ did dye as a public person representing all the elect of God, and Christ did go to heaven as a public person, and hath taken possession of heaven in our stead; Christ keeps our inheritance there, saith Grotius, Christ is said to prepare a place for us in heaven, just as a company of Travellers, when they are going a journey; they send one man before to be their harbinger to take up lodging in the Inn, and make provision for them against they come to the Inn, our Lord Jesus Christ is gone to heaven before to prepare a place for the elect there.
First, By way of Representation, Christ is not gone ⟨p. 127⟩to heaven as other men, as a single and a private person; but Christ is gone into heaven as a common and a publique person; Christ is gone up to heaven with flesh and blood, and with our natures hee is gone to heaven, and hee is gone there as a Representer of all the Elect; Jesus Christ is gone to heaven representing the persons of the Elect of God upon the earth. Hence it is that you have a passage, Eph. 2. 6. And hath raised us up together in heavenly places into Jesus Christ. Wee are not in heavenly places, wee are in earthly places, but we doe sit in heaven; because Christ is now in heaven, hee being gone to heaven as a common and a publique person, a Representer of all the elect,