A49255:739
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.
Answ. Before I give you the Answer, take this distinction; There is a twofold receiving.
First, There is a partial and incomplete receiving, and this is done immediately after death, that when the soul doth depart from the body, the soul is received by Jesus Christ into Heaven, and that is the reason of those Speeches in Acts 7. There is a receiving them before Christs coming, and this is called a partial and incomplete reception, it is only a receiving of the spirit and not of the body.
First, There is a partiall and incompleat receiving, and this is done immediately after death, that when the soule doth depart from the body, the soule is received by Jesus Christ into Heaven, and that is the reason of those Speeches in Acts 7. There is a receiving them before Christs coming, and this is called a partiall and incompleat reception, it is only a receiving of the spirit and not of the body.
Secondly, there is a total and complete reception both of the body and soul into glory, and it is this that the Text here speaks of: though it is true, there is not a total reception of a believer till Christs coming to judgement, yet there is a partial reception; I do not ⟨p. 188⟩now speak to those that say the soul is mortal, and that it shall never live after the death of the body, but to those that say the soul shall sleep and the soul doth perish with the body until the Resurrection. Now against these that plead for the sleeping of the soul till Christs coming again, take these four ways how to strengthen you.