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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.
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.
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 Beleever whilest they are here upon the earth; for the proofe of this see 1 Thess. 4. 15. To the end, For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that wee which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleepe. For the Lord himselfe shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voyce of the Archangell, and with the Trumpe of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then wee which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Ayre, and so shall wee ever bee with the Lord; Wherefore comfort one another with these words. In the handling of this there are four Queries to be answered.
The first is by way of Objection, what comfort is this to us, that Christ should bid them they should not be troubled, that he might come again, when between the making of this promise and this time promised it hath run above 1600 hundred years already.