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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 is said when Christs comes from Heaven that good and bad shall be gathered together, and all shall be judged by Jesus Christ; now this cannot be of Christs personal reign on the Earth; this you have in 2 Thess. 2. 9. Now we beseech you Brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him. So that the coming of our Lord, and our gathering together to be judged by Christ, they are both coupled together; because when the Lords coming is, then is our gathering time, Mat. 25. 31. 32. When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy Angels with him, then shall he sit upon the Throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all Nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth his sheep from the Goats. And in 2 Tim. 4. 1. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the Quick and the Dead at his appearing, and his Kingdom. The Scripture telleth you that when Christ appears to judge the world, he shall have this concomitant of his coming, he shall gather all together, to judge both the good and the bad. Those that pretend that Christ shall come to reign a thousand years upon the Earth, they cannot prove that then all shall be gathered together, they only plead for the Martyrs, and none else, therefore it cannot be referred to his coming to reign a thousand years.
Secondly, it is said when Christs comes from Heaven that good and bad shall bee gathered together, and all shall bee judged by Jesus Christ; now this cannot bee of Christs personall reigne on the Earth; this you have in 2 Thess. 2. 9. Now wee beseech you Brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him. So that the coming of our Lord, and our gathering together to bee judged by Christ, they are both coupled together; because when the Lords coming is, then is our gathering time, Mat. 25. 31. 32. When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy Angels with him, then shall hee sit upon the Throne of his glory. And before him shall bee gathered all Nations, and hee shall separate them one from another, as a Shepheard divideth his sheepe from the Goats. And in