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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.
Secondly, then it will follow, that God the Father would be more cruel to his people, then he would have other men be to their servants which have done their work. Mark that Text, Levit. 19. 13. Thou shalt not defraud thy Neighbour, neither rob him, the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. That the Master was not to keep the hire of the Labourer long from him, that the Master should not keep the servants wages long from him; Now will the great God keep from you, who are his servants, that have served him here in this world, and have done him faithful service, any reward till his last coming? No, but when you have ended your life, and ⟨p. 195⟩done your work; you receive your wages, when your work is done, you have your reward.
Secondly, then it wil follow, that God the Father would be more cruell to his people, then he would have other men be to their servants which have done their worke. Marke that Text, Levit. 19. 13. Thou shalt not defraud thy Neighbour, neither rob him, the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night untill the morning. That the Master was not to keep the hire of the Labourer long from him, that the Master should not keep the servants wages long from him; Now will the great God keep from you, who are his servants, that have served him here in this world, and have done him faithfull service, any reward till his last coming? No, but when you have ended your life, and ⟨p. 195⟩done your worke; you receive your wages, when your worke is done, you have your reward.
Thirdly, observe this, if this should be true that the souls of the Elect men do not go to Heaven after death, then it will follow that the souls of wicked men do not go to Hell after death, and how repugnant this is to the Scripture you well know, when the Scripture saith in the Epistle of Jude, That the men of Sodom and Gomorrah suffered the vengeance of eternal fire. And of Judas,