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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.
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⟩have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. The end of my first coming was not to judge, it was to be judged; and to be condemned by Pontius Pilate, and to dye the cursed death. And that is the end of Christs first coming, that is the first particular, he shall come certainly.
Secondly, Christ doth here speake, 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 Sonne to bee borne of a Virgin, hee did not send him to judge the world, but to save the world, hee reserved his judging of the world till his last coming. John 12. 47, 48. And if any man heare my words, and beleeve not, I judge him not, for I come not to judge the world, but to save the world. Hee that rejecteth mee, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him, the words that I ⟨p. 175⟩have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. The end of my first coming was not to judge, it was to bee judged; and to be condemned by Pontius Pilate, and to dye the cursed death. And that is the end of Christs first coming, that is the first particular, hee shall come certainly.