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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.
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, Rom. 8. 23. And not only they, but our selves also which have the fruits of the spirit, even we our selves groan within our selves, waiting for the Adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body; That is, the creatures do as it were groan, being used by man as an instrument to Gods dishonour, so that till the bodies of all the Elect be redeemed and glorified, till that time the creature lies under a curse by reason of mans sins and mans abuse. And they themselves that plead f•r Christs personal reign a thousand years upon the Earth, though they do hold that the martyrs shall be raised at at that time; yet do not hold that all the Elect shall be raised at that time, therefore the Apostle saith expressly, that the Heavens must keep the person of Christ till the restitution of all things, […] the bodies of the Elect come to be raised from the Dead. Again, it is apparent from the context in