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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.
The second Evasion is this. It is true, Christ promised, thou shalt be with me in Paradise, but Christ doth not say, thou shalt be with me in Heaven.
The second Evasion is this. It is true, Christ promised, thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise, but Christ doth not say, thou shalt be with me in Heaven.
There are three answers to confute this Evasion,
First, that those that will not by Paradise understand Heaven by this Text, they then fall in with the Papists, either for Purgatory, or a Limbus Patrum.
Secondly, take this answer, that in other Scriptures when Paradise is mentioned, it is to be understood Heaven, and so the Apostle doth expound it, 2 Cor. 12. 2, 4, I knew a man in Christ, above fourteen years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth, such an one caught up to the third Heaven. How that he was caught up into Paradise, and beard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. So that the Apostle by Paradise doth mean Heaven,