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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, it was the time that God did solemnly declare pardon of sin for all the elect, Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out.
Secondly, it was the time that God did solemnly declare pardon of sinne for all the elect, Repent yee therefore and be converted, that your Sinnes may bee blotted out.
Thirdly, it is said, of which all the Prophets do bear witness, those that do plead for Christs personal Reign a thousand years upon the Earth, they cannot say that all the Prophets did speak this; for Moses, Daniel and others, nay, none of the Prophets speak of Christs Reign a thousand years upon the Earth, therefore▪ this cannot have a reference to Christs Reign for a thousand years upon the Earth. A second Scripture is in Psal. 110. 1. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right Hand, until I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool. That Scripture tells you, that Jesus Christ who is ascended into Heaven and sits at Gods right Hand there, shall so sit, till he hath made all his Enemies his Foot-stool. That the Apostles tells you that all Christs Enemies are to be made his Foot-stool, cannot be till Christ coming at the last time. will you mark that Scripture, where the Apostle telleth you directly, 1 Cor. 15. 23, 24, 25, 26. But every man in his own Order, Christ the first Fruits, afterwards they that are Christs at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the Father, when he shall put down all rule, and all authority, and all power. For he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his Feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death. Here is the coming of Christ that hath reference to all the Just and Unjust. Mark now, Christ therefore must reign in Heaven till all enemies be under his Feet, now these thousand ⟨p. 153⟩