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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.
The third main Doctrine is the Doctrine of Christs coming again, I go and prepare a place for you, but I ⟨p. 136⟩will come again. Christ may stay long, but he will not stay ever, but Christ that said he would go away, also said, he would come again. To explicate the phrase. I will come again, what is meant by Christs coming again? Beloved, there are four sorts of Interpretations of these words, neither of which are true but the last.
The third main Doctrine is the Doctrine of Christs coming againe, I goe and prepare a place for you, but I ⟨p. 136⟩will come again. Christ may stay long, but hee will not stay ever, but Christ that said hee would goe away, also said, hee would come again. To explicate the phrase. I will come again, what is meant by Christs coming again? Beloved, there are foure sorts of Interpretations of these words, neither of which are true but the last.
First by coming again some understand Christs first coming, so the Jews understand it, (for some of them do study the Evangelists, though they study to confute it, they do not believe that Christ is come) they make it of his coming in the flesh, John 4. it was the woman's sense of the coming of Christ in the 25. verse. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ, when he is come, he will tell us all things: why, he was come, but she thought that he had not been come; O saith Jesus Christ, I am he, I am come already, so that the Jews and the Samaritans did ever take the phrase of Christs coming not to Judge the world, but of the coming in the flesh.
First by coming again some understand Christs first coming, so the Jewes understand it, (for some of them do study the Evangelists, though they study to confute it, they doe not beleeve that Christ is come) they make it of his coming in the flesh,