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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.
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.
Secondly, Seeing there is no coming of Christ as King in this world, then labour to have Christ to reign in his Church by a well-ordered Discipline, that the Government of Christ may be established in the places where you dwell.
Thirdly, Seeing there is no coming of Christ as King in this world; then do not trouble your selves with Niceties, and Obscurities about his coming upon the Earth, but labour to be fitted and prepared for his last and great coming.
Thirdly, Seeing there is no coming of Christ as King in this world; then doe not trouble your selves with Niceties, and Obscurities about his coming upon the Earth, but labour to be fitted and prepared for his last and great coming.