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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.
Secondly, I shall give you some reasons from the Scripture, why Christ cannot come out of Heaven Bodily and in person to Reign a thousand years upon the Earth.
Secondly, I shall give you some reasons from the Scripture, why Christ cannot come out of Heaven Bodily and in person to Reigne a thousand yeares upon the Earth.
Thirdly, I shall show you some absurdities and incongruities that would follow if Christ should come to Reign a thousand years upon the Earth.
Thirdly, I shall shew you some absurdities and incongruities that would follow if Christ should come to Reign a thousand yeares upon the Earth.
First, for express Scriptures which are four, the first scripture Act. 3. 21. Whom the Heavens must receive, until the ⟨p. 151⟩times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began. There the Apostle telleth you directly, that the Heaven must receive and keep Jesus Christ; how long? till the restitution of all things. The Millenaries hold that the restitution of all things may be at the time of Christ Personal Reign; but I shall show you that this restitution of all things cannot be till Christs judging the world. First, there cannot be a total abolition of sin in the world, at the thousand years end there shall be a number of men, and wicked, during the thousand years, all things cannot be restored, for sin bringeth the creature under a curse, it is apparent that it cannot be till Christs last coming to judge the world, because other Scriptures tell you that the time of restitution cannot be till our bodies be raised from the Dead,