A49255:665
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.
I, but then it is said, they live and reign with Christ a thousand years.
I, but then it is said, they live and reigne with Christ a thousand yeares.
Beloved, that Phrase, living and reigning with Christ, though some Interpreters re•erre it to Heaven, yet with Brightman and others, I concur, and al•o Bernard, that it doth denote thus much, that those in Successive Ages, who enjoyed Liberty in the Christian Religion under Constantine the great, who lived to a thousand years, and were delivered from former afflictions, that kept by Christs Power from the Idolatry of the times, and from Antichrist, they were said to live with Christ a thousand years, for they lived to him, and depended on him, and were not plunged into the wickedness of the times: and thus with consulting of many Authors I find this to be the truest account, in a few words in defending this Text from giving any foundation to Christs personal reign for a thousand years upon the Earth.
Beloved, that Phrase, living and reigning with Christ, though some Interpreters re•erre it to Heaven, yet with Brightman and others, I concurre, and al•o Bernard, that it doth denote thus much, that those in Successive Ages, who enjoyed Liberty in the Christian Religion under Constantine the great, who lived to a thousand years, and were delivered from former afflictions, that kept by Christs Power from the Idolatry of the times, and from Antichrist, they were said to live with Christ a thousand yeares, for they lived to him, and depended on him, and were not plunged into the wickednesse of the times: and thus with consulting of many Authors I finde this to bee the truest account, in a few words in defending this Text from giving any foundation to Christs personall reigne for a thousand yeares upon the Earth.