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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.
Again, if the Souls of wicked men be in Hell before Christs time, then the Souls of Godly men must be in Heaven before Christs time, that must clearly follow by the Rule of contraries; now that wicked men went to Hell is clear, Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to Fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an examples suffering the vengeance of eternal ⟨p. 132⟩Fire. They went to Hell before Christs time, therefore it must follow clearly that the elect must go to Heaven before Christs time.
Againe, if the Soules of wicked men bee in Hell before Christs time, then the Soules of Godly men must bee in Heaven before Christs time, that must clearly follow by the Rule of contraries; now that wicked men went to Hell is cleare, Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to Fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an examples suffering the vengeance of eternall ⟨p. 132⟩Fire. They went to Hell before Christs time, therefore it must follow clearly that the elect must go to Heaven before Christs time.
Fourthly, there is the very same reason why Believers should go to Heaven before Christs Ascension, as there is why they should go to heaven after Christs Ascension, because Believers under the old Testament, they had the same Gospel preached to them as now we have, and they had the same Spirit, the same Faith, and under the same Covenant, and therefore why must not they go to the same place? I shall clearly prove this unto you. First▪ they had the same Spirit and the same Faith that we have, and this is laid down by the Apostle, in