A49255:662
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.
Answer, that when it is said the Devil is bound up, it ⟨p. 165⟩is not meant simply, that there should be no temptation to sin, for that there should be; Valens the Emperor did establish Arianism and troubled the Church of God. One answereth, it was nothing like the persecution of the Roman Emperors, it was nothing so long nor so tedious as the persecution under the Roman Emperors, for, for every day in the year, 5000 Christians were put to death; In Dioclesians reign there were 17000 Christians killed in one Month, there was some sprinkling persecution in the time of Valens and Julian the Apostate, but it was nothing to that of the Roman Emperors.
Answer, that when it is said the Devil is bound up, it ⟨p. 165⟩is not meant simply, that there should bee no temptation to sinne, for that there should bee; Valens the Emperour did establish Arrianisme and troubled the Church of God. One answereth, it was nothing like the persecution of the Roman Emperours, it was nothing so long nor so tedious as the persecution under the Roman Emperours, for, for every day in the year, 5000 Christians were put to death; In Dioclesians reigne there were 17000 Christians killed in one Moneth, there was some sprinkling persecution in the time of Valens and Iulian the Apostate, but it was nothing to that of the Roman Emperours.
Object. Another Objection is this, I, but the Scripture saith, that this is the first Resurrection, that the Saints living and reigning with Christ a thousand years, this is the first Resurrection; how can it be said that after the time that the Roman persecution was curbed by Constantine, that was a Resurrection, and that they reigned with Christ at that time?
Object. Another Objection is this, I, but the Scripture saith, that this is the first Resurrection, that the Saints living and reigning with Christ a thousand yeares, this is the first Resurrection; how can it bee said that after the time that the Roman persecution was curbed by Constantine, that was a Resurrection, and that they reigned with Christ at that time?