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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.
Now there be eight Incongruities, and Absurdities that would follow in case you should grant that Christ should come to Reign a thousand years upon the Earth.
Now there be eight Incongruities, and Absurdities that would follow in case you should grant that Christ should come to Reigne a thousand yeares upon the Earth.
First, by those mens Principles, this inconvenience will follow, that people may exactly know the punctual time of Christs last coming to judge the world; for those who hold Christs personal Reign, they do as well hold the time as the thing, they do as well maintain when this Reign shall begin; Therefore some have maintained that Christ should come to Reign on the Earth in the year 1650. One saith, if it shall not be in the year 1650, it shall be in the year 1694. They that go furthest guess at that time, if so be they hold the thing, and maintain the time also when it shall begin, then of necessity, we must know exactly when the day shall be that Christ shall come to judge the world, for they grant it shall be immediately after the thousand years. Now beloved, that Opinion that carries this absurdity, to know the day of Christs coming to judge the world, which Christ saith, none in the world can tell, of that hour and day knoweth no man, Mark. 13. 32. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father, is a false Opinion.
First, by those mens Principles, this inconvenience will follow, that people may exactly know the punctuall time of Christs last coming to judge the world; for those who hold Christs personall Reigne, they doe as well hold the time as the thing, they doe as well maintaine when this Reigne shall begin; Therefore some have maintained that Christ should come to Reigne on the Earth in the year 1650. One saith, if it shall not be in the yeare 1650, it shall bee in the yeare 1694. They that go furthest guess at that time, if so bee they hold the thing, and maintaine the time also when it shall begin, then of necessity, wee must know exactly when the day shal be that Christ shall come to judge the world, for they grant it shall be immediately after the thousand yeares. Now beloved, that Opinion that carries this absurdity, to know the day of Christs coming to judge the world, which Christ saith, none in the world can tell, of that houre and day knoweth no man,