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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.
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, Acts 25. That he may take part of this ministry, and Apostle-ship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. I could give you a multitude of instances where it is shown the wicked are in Hell, 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. By which also he went and preached unto the Spirits in Prison. Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. To say that a godly man doth not go to Heaven immediately after death, it will follow that a wicked man doth not go to Hell immediately after death.
Thirdly, observe this, if this should bee true that the soules of the Elect men doe not goe to Heaven after death, then it will follow that the soules of wicked men doe not goe 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 Sodome and Gomor•ha suffered the vengeance of eternall fire. And of Judas, Acts 25. That hee may take part of this ministery, and Apostle-ship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that hee might goe to his owne place. I could give you a multitude of instances where it is shewn the wicked are in Hell, 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. By which also he went and preached unto the Spirits in Prison. Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waiting in the daies of Noah, while the Arke was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight soules were saved by water. To say that a godly man doth not goe to Heaven immediately after death, it will follow that a wicked man doth not goe to Hell immediately after death.