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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.
Again, it is said, that they are carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom; therefore Abraham's bosom must be ⟨p. 191⟩in Heaven: certainly the good Angels carry a good soul into Heaven, and the wicked Angels carry a damned soul into Hell, and thus you have two instances, that immediately after death the souls of the Elect go to Heaven.
Againe, it is said, that they are carried by Angels into Abrahams bosome; therefore Abrahams bosom must be ⟨p. 191⟩in Heaven: certainly the good Angels carry a good soule into Heaven, and the wicked Angels carry a damned soule into Hell, and thus you have two instances, that immediately after death the soules of the Elect go to Heaven.
A third instance is in Mat. 22. 31, 32. But as touching the Resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. I argue from that instance that therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were living at that time, though not in their bodies; if you mark the reason of that Text, it was not to prove a Resurrection of the body only, which the Sadducees deny, but also to prove the immortality of the soul. The Sadducees deny Spirits and Angels too, Acts 23. 8. For the Sadducees say that there is no Resurrection, neither Angel nor Spirit, but the Pharisees confess both. Christ doth prove that there shall be a Resurrection of the body, and he likewises proves that the soul doth not dye when the body dyeth. Indeed there is a quotation that I have read of a learned man that doth make use of this instance,