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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 shall not only come certainly, but he shall come personally; It was the great mistake of Origen, though he holds for the coming of Christ again, that he pleads for the coming of Christ in spirit, therefore that Text where it is said, you shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven, Origen understands by the Clouds, to be the Saints, because it is mentioned in Scripture, that the Believers are called a cloud of witnesses. Now this is to pervert the whole letter of the Bible, and turn all the Scripture into an Allegory and Metaphorical sense; Now in opposition of that, I lay down a second property, that Christs coming shall be a personal coming out of Heaven, but the Scripture doth not speak of Christs coming on the Earth, but no further then the Air, Christ in his Body shall come personally out of Heaven. Now to prove this second property, or second manner or way of Christs coming, there are two Texts of Scripture to confirm it. 1 Thess. 4. 17. Then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord, vers. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend with a shout from Heaven, &c. If it had been Christ in his spirit, then it would have been said, the Lord by his spirit shall descend, But the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, it notes his personal coming out of Heaven, that whereas Jesus Christ had a personal translation, and as Christ had a visible Elevation, he was in the eyes of his Disciples lifted up, so Christ shall bodily descend and come out from Heaven, the Lord himself, &c. Therefore it cannot be the Lord by his spirit, Acts 1. 11. Which also said, ⟨p. 176⟩ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye have seen him go into Heaven. The same Jesus that you saw Ascend, shall descend, so that it cannot be Christ in his spirit, but in his person. I only mention this to confute those that follow the conceit of Origen, merely to make Christs coming to be but a spiritual coming, a coming in the hearts of Saints.
Secondly, Christ shal not only come certainly, but he shal come personally; It was the great mistake of Origen, though hee holds for the coming of Christ againe, that hee pleades for the coming of Christ in spirit, therefore that Text where it is said, you shall see the Sonne of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven, Origen understands by the Cloudes, to bee the Saints, because it is mentioned in Scripture, that the Beleevers are called a cloud of witnesses. Now this is to pervert the whole letter of the Bible, and turne all the Scripture into an Allegory and Metaphoricall sense; Now in opposition of that, I lay downe a second property, that Christs coming shall bee a personall coming out of Heaven, but the Scripture doth not speake of Christs coming on the Earth, but no further then the Aire, Christ in his Body shall come personally out of Heaven. Now to prove this second property, or second manner or way of Christs coming, there are two Texts of Scripture to confirme it.