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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.
Fifthly, if Christ comes personally out of Heaven, to reign a thousand years, this incongruity will follow, that either the Saints and Angels must come, or not come with Christ; if they must come with Christ, then it is a loss to them, for them to leave the immediate presence of God, and come upon the Earth where wicked men shall be amongst them: or if they must not come with ⟨p. 159⟩Jesus Christ, yet it is a loss to them to remain there, they shall lose for a thousand years the bodily presence of Christ; if Christ be on the Earth, •ee cannot be in Heaven the same time; Therefore it would be a loss to the Saints and Angels for them to be a thousand years in Heaven without the company of Jesus Christ, not to have the person of Jesus Christ with them.
Fifthly, if Christ comes personally out of Heaven, to reigne a thousand yeares, this incongruity will follow, that either the Saints and Angels must come, or not come with Christ; if they must come with Christ, then it is a losse to them, for them to leave the immediate presence of God, and come upon the Earth where wicked men shall bee amongst them: or if they must not come with ⟨p. 159⟩Jesus Christ, yet it is a loss to them to remaine there, they shall lose for a thousand yeares the bodily presence of Christ; if Christ bee on the Earth, •ee cannot bee in Heaven the same time; Therefore it would be a losse to the Saints and Angels for them to bee a thousand yeares in Heaven without the company of Jesus Christ, not to have the person of Jesus Christ with them.
A Sixth Incongruity will follow, that if Christ shall come to reign upon the Earth, then Christs Kingdom must be a worldly and terrene Kingdom, then it will be against the word of God, he must be a visible King to the Jews, and a visible King to all the world; besides this would follow then that Christs Kingdom must not be a spiritual Kingdom, but a Terrene, a worldly pompous Kingdom,