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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.
They say likewise that there shall be no sin in the world, and that the Earth shall be restored to its primitive fruitfulness as it were before the fall, but I shall not middle with these. And thus according unto my poor measure I have laboured to lay down the grounds from Scripture, why Christ cannot come to reign personally upon the Earth a thousand years, and have vindicated those Scriptures that seem to patronize that Opinion.
They say likewise that there shall bee no sinne in the world, and that the Earth shall bee restored to its primitive fruitfulnesse as it were before the fall, but I shall not middle with these. And thus according unto my poore measure I have laboured to lay down the grounds from Scripture, why Christ cannot come to reigne personally upon the Earth a thousand yeares, and have vindicated those Scriptures that seeme to patronize that Opinion.
Use. Is it so, that the Scripture doth not determine of any ⟨p. 172⟩coming of Christ out of Heaven till his last, and great coming to judge the world? O then labour to make it your work to have Jesus Christ as King to reign in your hearts by mortification, to rule in thy Heart by his Spirit, to mortify thy head-strong lusts that are in thee.
Use. Is it so, that the Scripture doth not determine of any ⟨p. 172⟩coming of Christ out of Heaven till his last, and great coming to judge the world? O then labour to make it your worke to have Jesus Christ as King to reign in your hearts by mortification, to rule in thy Heart by his Spirit, to mortifie thy head-strong lusts that are in thee.