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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, Christs coming it shall be dreadful in regard of thy Separation from all the Elect of God. In Mat. 25. 32. 33. And before him shall be gathered all Nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth his sheep from the Goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the Goats on the left. Here thou art mingled, it may be thou livest in the same house with a godly man, and lyest in the same bed with a godly man, but remember a parting time is coming, that as the Shepherd parteth the Sheep from the Goats, so doth Christ part the wicked from the godly.
Secondly, Christs coming it shall bee dreadfull in regard of thy Separation from all the Elect of God. In Mat. 25. 32. 33. And before him shal be gathered all Nations, and hee shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth his sheepe from the Goates. And hee shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the Goates on the left. Here thou art mingled, it may bee thou livest in the same house with a godly man, and lyest in the same bed with a godly man, but remember a parting time is coming, that as the Shepherd parteth the Sheepe from the Goats, so doth Christ part the wicked from the godly.
Thirdly, Christs coming again it is dreadful to wicked men, in regard it shall be the time of the promulgation of thy Sentence. A Thief in Newgate is a miserable creature, a Thief at Bar is in a sad condition, but a Thief when the Sentence of death is past upon him, then he is in a hopeless condition. O thou wicked man, at thy dying day thou art a Malefactor, but at thy Sentence giving thou art an undone man, thou art in a hopeless condition.
Thirdly, Christs coming againe it is dreadfull to wicked men, in regard it shall be the time of the promulgation of thy Sentence. A Thiefe in Newgate is a miserable creature, a Thiefe at Bar is in a sad condition, but a Thiefe when the Sentence of death is past upon him, then hee is in a hopelesse condition. O thou wicked man, at thy dying day thou art a Malefactor, but at thy Sentence giving thou art an undone man, thou art in a hopelesse condition.