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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.
First, from Eusebius and others, they give us the rise of this Opinion from Cerinthus which had it, who lived in the time of John. This Cerinthus who was a pestilent Heretic in those times, who held that Christ was borne by the conjunction of a man and a woman, Christum ex congressu maritali genitum esse, and not born by a Virgin, and was borne as others are, and so must be a sinner. He was the Man that was the first author from whom this Opinion had any life or being. Eusebius saith, Papias Bishop of Hieropolis did also hold this Opinion, but not in so gross a way as Cerinthus did, but rather spiritually: and there was some spice of this in the Apostles, for they did dream of a temporal Kingdom; therefore they asked Christ when he was going to Heaven, Lord, when wilt thou restore the Kingdom unto Israel? there was in the time of the Apostle a fancy that Christ must be an Earthly Monarch, and destroy all the Kings of the Earth, and all the Enemies of the world, and must come here to Rule and Reign a thousand years upon the Earth; it was brought over into Germany, and there was taken hold on by John of Leydon, in westphalia, and handed over to us in England by men of late, Now for the confutation.
First, from Eusebius and others, they give us the rise of this Opinion from Cerinthus which had it, who lived in the time of John. This Cerinthus who was a pesti•ent Heretick in those times, who held that Christ was borne by the conjunction of a man and a woman, Christum ex congressu maritali genitum esse, and not born by a Virgin, and was borne as others are, and so must be a sinner. Hee was the Man that was the first author from whom this Opinion had any life or being. Eusebius saith, Papias Bishop of Hieropolis did also hold this Opinion, but not in so grosse a way as Cerinthus did, but rather spiritually: and there was some spice of this in the Apostles, for they did dream of a temporal Kingdome; therfore they askt Christ when hee was going to Heaven, Lord, when wilt thou restore the Kingdome unto Israel? there was in the time of the Apostle a fancy that Christ must bee an Earthly Monarch, and destroy all the Kings of the Earth, and all the Enemies of the world, and must come here to Rule and Reigne a thousand yeares upon the Earth; it was brought over into Germany, and there was taken hold on by John of Leydon, in westphalia, and handed over to us in England by men of late, Now for the confutation.