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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.
Lastly, take heed of bold and adventurous conjectures, about the manner of Christs coming to judge the World by vain and carnal corruptions of a temporal Kingdom of Christ. Many are very peremptory about it, and there be strange Books, at least in their own expressions, that they can descry the very manner of his coming, that Christ shall come from heaven, and dwell a thousand years upon the Earth, and the Dead shall rise and live in the World, but these are such things which the Scripture doth never take notice of. I am to handle on this promise of Christ, but I will come again, A perplexed Query, which is this, whether Christ Jesus in promising to his Disciples to come again, did mean to come to Reign upon the Earth here a thousand years, or whether it be to be meant of Christs last coming to judge the world; this Scripture and others are made use of and brought to prove that Christ shall come from heaven in person and live upon the Earth, for a whole thousand years, they fancy that Jesus Christ when he shall come to this personal Reign, then he shall raise all the Martyrs that have lost their Lives in his cause, and the Devil shall be bound up, that he shall tempt Men to sin no more, and wicked Men shall be tied up that they shall not persecute the Church of God, this is an Ancient Opinion, and almost since the Apostles days. Before I shall come to give you my thoughts from the ⟨p. 150⟩words touching Christs coming, as they pretend, to Reign a thousand years upon the Earth; I shall show you the rise of this Opinion.
Lastly, take heed of bold and adventurous conjectures, about the manner of Christs coming to judge the World by vaine and carnall corruptions of a temporall Kingdome of Christ. Many are very peremptory about it, and there bee strange Books, at least in their own expressions, that they can descry the very maner of his coming, that Christ shall come from heaven, and dwell a thousand yeares upon the Earth, and the Dead shall rise and live in the World, but these are such things which the Scripture doth never take notice of. I am to handle on this promise of Christ, but I will come again, A perplexed Quere, which is this, whether Christ Jesus in promising to his Disciples to come again, did meane to come to Reigne upon the Earth here a thousand years, or whether it bee to bee meant of Christs last coming to judge the world; this Scripture and others are made use of and brought to prove that Christ shall come from heaven in person and live upon the Earth, for a whole thousand years, they fancy that Jesus Christ when hee shall come to this personall Reigne, then hee shall raise all the Martyrs that have lost their Lives in his cause, and the Divell shall bee bound up, that hee shall tempt Men to sinne no more, and wicked Men shall be ty'd up that they shall not persecute the Church of God, this is an Antient Opinion, and almost since the Apostles dayes. Before I shall come to give you my thoughts from the