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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
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Use. I now come to the Application, the use is to draw out a few practical inferences from this Doctrine, which are four. If it be so, that Jesus Christ by his going into Heaven hath prepared a place for the elect there, then learn by way of recompense, by way of compensation and gratification to Jesus Christ; O prepare thou a heart for Christ who hath prepared a heaven for thee. Shall Christ go to heaven to prepare a place for thee, and wilt thou afford Christ no corner in thy heart? thou lettest thy lusts sit on the Throne of thy heart, yet you do not give Christ any room there. We read in Revel. 19. 7. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him, for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. O be thou as the Bride, make thy self ready for the Marriage day, the betrothing day was when Christ went up to heaven, thy Marriage day is thy dying day; O against the Marriage day of the Lamb, do thou who art his Bride make thy self ready, do thou prepare a heart for Christ, who hath prepared heaven for thee. Origen hath a good passage on Luke 22. 12. And he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready, though he doth much abuse the scope of the Scripture. There were three properties of the Room wherein Christ are the passover, a large, upper, and a furnished Room, he makes this Allegory of it; I do not give it to you as the sense of it, but take his gloss, that if thou wilt come to sup with Christ, thou must make thy heart as the upper Room, a heart raised in Divine contemplation, and not only an upper Room, but a large Room, a large Heart, a furnished Room, a Heart adorned with grace; O do thou prepare a large Room, an upper Room and a furnished Room for Christ.
Use. I now come to the Application, the use is to draw out a few practicall inferences from this Doctrine, which are four. If it be so, that Jesus Christ by his going into Heaven hath prepared a place for the elect there, then learn by way of recompense, by way of compensation and gratification to Jesus Christ; O prepare thou a heart for Christ who hath prepared a heaven for thee. Shall Christ go to heaven to prepare a place for thee, and wilt thou afford Christ no corner in thy heart? thou lettest thy lusts sit on the Throne of thy heart, yet you doe not give Christ any roome there. We read in