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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.
Seventhly, that if Jesus Christ shall come to take a Kingdom on the Earth for a thousand years, then this would intimate, as if Jesus Christ had not a Kingdom, and were not a King on Earth all this while he is in Heaven; they deny that place in Daniel, and all those phrases in the new Testament, that the Kingdom of the world is become the Kingdom of the Lord, they deny that Christ is a King in Heaven. When he was in the Cratch and borne in the Stable, he was a King at that very hour, ⟨p. 160⟩Psalm 2. The Apostle refers it to Christs Birth and Christs Resurrection. Christ when he arose from the Dead, he was a King then, and the Gospel under Christs time is called a Kingdom. It is remarkable, in John 18. 37. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a King then? Jesus answered, thou sayest that I am a King. Christ was a King, though he would not be an Earthly King to destroy Earthly Governments, therefore when the people in a tumult would have made him a King, yet he would not Zech. 9. 9. Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion, shout O Daughter of Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto thee, he is just, and having Salvation, lowly, and riding upon an Ass, and upon a Colt, the fool of an Ass. He was King, when he was on that slow contemptible creature, so that now to say Christ shall come to reign as King, it is to intimate to the world, as if Christ were not a King at this day, and whereas he is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords in Heaven, therefore he cannot come a thousand years to reign upon the Earth.
Seventhly, that if Jesus Christ shall come to take a Kingdome on the Earth for a thousand yeares, then this would intimate, as if Jesus Christ had not a Kingdome, and were not a King on Earth all this while hee is in Heaven; they deny that place in Daniel, and all those phrases in the new Testament, that the Kingdome of the world is become the Kingdome of the Lord, they deny that Christ is a King in Heaven. When hee was in the Cratch and borne in the Stable, he was a King at that very hour, ⟨p. 160⟩