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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.
Fourthly, is Christ gone into Heaven to prepare a place for Believers? then all Christless and graceless men have no benefit by the passion or Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ▪ Christ dyed, but not for thee; Christ rose again, but not for thee; Christ is gone up to Heaven but not for thee; he will prepare no place in Heaven for thee, therefore thy case is, as was spoken of Judas, Acts 1. 25. That he may take part of this Ministry and Apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. It was to no place of Christs preparing, it was to a place prepared of old for condemnation; In the phrase of Jude, Tophet is prepared of old, it is a place prepared of an angry God, and not a place prepared by a Mediator. This therefore should be matter of astonishment to all Christless and Graceless men: what though Christ be gone into Heaven? yet thou shalt never follow after him. What though Christ prepareth a place for all his Elect? yet he prepareth none for thee, thy place is prepared by an angry God, thou goest to Hell, and not to a place prepared by Jesus Christ. And thus I have done with the second Doctrine, to wit, that the fruit and benefit that all the Elect of God hath by Christs going into Heaven, it is to prepare a place for them, I go to prepare a place for you.
Fourthly, is Christ gone into Heaven to prepare a place for Beleevers? then all Christlesse and gracelesse men have no benefit by the passion or Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ▪ Christ dyed, but not for thee; Christ rose again, but not for thee; Christ is gone up to Heaven but not for thee; he will prepare no place in Heaven for thee, therefore thy case is, as was spoken of Judas, Acts 1. 25. That hee may take part of this Ministery and Apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that hee might goe to his own place. It was to no place of Christs preparing, it was to a place prepared of old for condemnation; In the phrase of Jude, Tophet is prepared of old, it is a place prepared of an angry God, and not a place prepared by a Mediatour. This therefore should bee matter of astonishment to all Christlesse and Gracelesse men: what though Christ bee gone into Heaven? yet thou shalt never follow after him. What though Christ prepareth a place for all his Elect? yet hee prepareth none for thee, thy place is prepared by an angry God, thou goest to Hell, and not to a place prepared by Jesus Christ. And thus I have done with the second Doctrine, to wit, that the fruit and benefit that all the Elect of God hath by Christs going into Heaven, it is to prepare a place for them, I goe to prepare a place for you.