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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
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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, Revel. 2. 7. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. That is, he shall enjoy Jesus Christ, Christ in Heaven is the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God, ⟨p. 106⟩§3Thirdly, it cannot be any Earthly Paradise, as the Paradise Adam was in before his fall, for the Earthly Paradise was destroyed by the Flood, therefore of necessity when Christ tells the thief, To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise, it must refer to the thieves going to Heaven at that day with Jesus Christ.
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 fourteene yeares agoe, 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 hee was caught up into Paradise, and beard unspeakable words, which it is not lawfull for a man to utter. So that the Apostle by Paradise doth meane Heaven, Revel. 2. 7. Hee that hath an eare let him heare what the Spirit saith unto the Churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eate of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. That is, he shall enjoy Jesus Christ, Christ in Heaven is the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God, ⟨p. 106⟩