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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.
Sixthly, John doth not say, that he saw the bodies of men that were beheaded, and they reigned with Christ, but he d•d in a vision see the Souls of them that were beheaded; now to say they must come to reign on the Earth for a thousand years, it were a great inconveniency to them; it is said, I saw the souls of them; The thousand years cannot be applied to Christs Personal Reign. For so Jesus Christ hath an eternal Kingdom, he doth not reign a thousand years on Earth or in Heaven, but everlastingly, Kingdoms and States of this world have lasted a thousand years, and to make Christs Kingdom to last no longer, it is to give Christs Kingdom too narrow a confine. I have consulted with many Authors, and I find the current of Interpreters generally run this way, though some do fancy that Text speaks of the binding of the Devil for a thousand years, and during this time, the Saints should live and reign with Christ a thousand years. The sense and scope of this place is this.
Sixthly, John doth not say, that hee saw the bodies of men that were beheaded, and they reigned with Christ, but he d•d in a vision see the Souls of them that were beheaded; now to say they must come to reigne on the Earth for a thousand yeares, it were a great inconveniency to them; it is said, I saw the soules of them; The thousand yeares cannot bee applied to Christs Personall Reigne. For so Jesus Christ hath an eternall Kingdome, he doth not reigne a thousand yeares on Earth or in Heaven, but everlastingly, Kingdomes and States of this world have lasted a thousand yeares, and to make Christs Kingdome to last no longer, it is to give Christs Kingdome too narrow a confine. I have consulted with many Authors, and I finde the current of Interpreters generally runne this way, though some doe fancy that Text speakes of the binding of the Devill for a thousand years, and during this time, the Saints should live and reigne with Christ a thousand yeares. The sense and scope of this place is this.
The period of time, when this time began that the Devil was bound; Interpreters do unanimously give this Opinion, that it began in the reign of Constantine