A49255:581
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, by Christs coming again it is to be understood as Calvin and most Interpreters take it, of Christs coming to Judge the world, as if he should say, I go to prepare Heaven for you, and I promise you to come again, that though your bodies die and rot in the Graves, yet I will come again and raise you up another day, and receive you unto my self; It is to be understood of his ⟨p. 137⟩last coming. And thus much for the explication of the phrase.
Fourthly, by Christs coming againe it is to bee understood as Calvin and most Interpreters take it, of Christs coming to Judge the world, as if hee should say, I go to prepare Heaven for you, and I promise you to come again, that though your bodies die and rot in the Graves, yet I will come again and raise you up another day, and receive you unto my selfe; It is to bee understood of his ⟨p. 137⟩last coming. And thus much for the explication of the phrase.
Obser. 3 Christ doth here give them a promise of his coming to comfort their troubled hearts. From thence observe, that Christs coming again to judge the world is a Doctrine full of comfort to every Believer whilst they are here upon the earth; for the proof of this see 1 Thess. 4. 15. To the end, For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord; Wherefore comfort one another with these words. In the handling of this there are four Queries to be answered.