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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.
Answ. For Answer, first in Scripture phrase, the word rising doth not carry a reference to the body rising from the Grave only, but of a man rising from a state of affliction and of sin, they are expressed in Scripture by a Resurrection. Roman 10. 10, 11. Let their Eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid, but rather through their fall, Salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy, Isaiah 22. 19. And I will drive thee from thy Station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. The men that are as it were low men in captivity in Babylon, they shall rise, it doth not refer to the resurrection from the Dead at the last day: so a rising from sin, Coloss. 2. 12. Buried with him in Baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the Faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the Dead. We are risen with Christ, not bodily, but out of our sins, Coloss. 3. 1. If ye th•n be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, ⟨p. 166⟩where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. So that here, this is the first Resurrection, the meaning is this, that those that did escape the rage and cruelty of the ten Persecutions, and did come to live in Constantine's days, and did all the while of the former Persecutions, keep themselves from the Idolatry of the Heathens, and Corruptions of Antichrist, they are said to have the first Resurrection: blessed are they that were raised up by Christ, from the sins, and from the Errors▪ Superstition and Idolatry both of Antichrist and the Heathens.
Answ. For Answer, first in Scripture phrase, the word rising doth not carry a reference to the body rising from the Grave onely, but of a man rising from a state of affliction and of sinne, they are expressed in Scripture by a Resurrection. Roman 10. 10, 11. Let their Eyes be darkned, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid, but rather through their fall, Salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousie,