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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.
But Beloved, to this Text that they make use of, to to shake this great Pillar of our hopes, the coming of Christ again, take these two Answers, when Christ saith, I judge no man, that is, I judge no man with a rash and heady judgement, as you judge men that are not of your Opinion, you judge things rashly and inconsiderately, but I judge no man as you do, so Austin, in his 36. Tract on John, gives it to be the sense of the place, it doth not exclude Christ from judging the world at the last day, but from judging of men as the Pharisees, to wit, rashly and inconsiderately.
But Beloved, to this Text that they make use of, to to shake this great Pillar of our hopes, the coming of Christ againe, take these two Answers, when Christ saith, I judge no man, that is, I judge no man with a rash and heady judgement, as you judge men that are not of your Opinion, you judge things rashly and inconsideratly, but I judge no man as you doe, so Austine, in his 36. Tract on John, gives it to bee the sence of the place, it doth not exclude Christ from judging the world at the last day, but from judging of men as the Pharisees, to wit, rashly and inconsideratly.
Secondly, Christ doth here speak, what was not the end of his first coming in the flesh, but the end of his second coming was to judge all men, but I judge no man, that is, it was not the intent or the end of my first coming in the flesh to judge men, John 3. When God sent his Son to be borne of a Virgin, he did not send him to judge the world, but to save the world, he reserved his judging of the world till his last coming. John 12. 47, 48. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not, for I come not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him, the words that I ⟨p. 175⟩