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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.
And so likewise a fourth Text you have in 2 Cor. 6. 8, 9. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord; wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. Mark, the Apostle desires, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord, so that the soul is present with the Lord, whilst absent from the body.
And so likewise a fourth Text you have in 2 Cor. 6. 8, 9. Therefore wee are alwaies confident, knowing that whilst wee are at home in the body, wee are absent from the Lord. Wee are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to bee present with the Lord; wherefore wee labour, that whether present or absent, wee may be accepted of him. Marke, the Apostle desires, to be absent from the body, and to bee present with the Lord, so that the soule is present with the Lord, whilest absent from the body.
Then again, that Prayer of Stephen proves it likewise, in Acts 7. 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling ⟨p. 194⟩upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. It had been uncomfortable for him to have thought that he should have been stoned for Jesus Christ and it must have been above 1600 years before Christ should have received his soul, but he prayed, Lord Jesus Christ receive my soul, which he would not have done, if he had not believed that his soul would have been received by Jesus Christ immediately after death.
Then againe, that Prayer of Stephen proves it likewise, in