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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.
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 ⟨p. 164⟩the Great, he being the first Christian Emperor in the World, he coming after 300 years Persecution by the Roman Emperors, who made great massacre and havoc in the Church of God; in so much that in the book of Martyrs we read, that there may be for every day in the year five thousand Christians slain, this is a dreadful Persecution, and the Devil raged and stirred much. Now upon▪ Constantine's reign the Devil was bound up, that is, the Roman Emperors, who were acted by the Devil to all this cruelty, when Constantine a Christian Emperor came to reign, he gave out imperial Edicts and Laws for establishment of the Christian Religion, and that put an end to the Persecution of the Roman Emperors, and to this Opinion many Interpreters give in their consent, Brightman, Napier, Gerard, and these thousand years when the Devil was bound did end 300 years ago and more, and this is given to be the scope and sense of the Scripture.
The period of time, when this time began that the Devill was bound; Interpreters doe unanimously give this Opinion, that it began in the reigne of Constantine ⟨p. 164⟩the Great, hee being the first Christian Emperour in the World, hee coming after 300 yeares Persecution by the Roman Emperours, who made great massacre and havock in the Church of God; in so much that in the booke of Martyrs wee reade, that there may bee for every day in the yeare five thousand Christians slaine, this is a dreadfull Persecution, and the Devill raged and stirred much. Now upon▪ Constantines reigne the Devill was bound up, that is, the Roman Emperours, who were acted by the Devill to all this cruelty, when Constantine a Christian Emperour came to reigne, hee gvae out imperiall Edicts and Lawes for establishment of the Christian Religion, and that put an end to the Persecution of the Roman Emperours, and to this Opinion many Interpreters give in their consent, Brightman, Napier, Gerard, and these thousand yeares when the Devill was bound did end 300 yeares ago and more, and this is given to be the scope and sense of the Scripture.