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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.
Fifthly, this would follow that it would be a great discomfort to a godly man on his death-bed, to think he should be so many hundred years soul and body in the grave before Christ would bring him to Heaven; it would be a very uncomfortable Doctrine for a man to think on, that I shall die like a beast, that my soul after death shall not be taken up into Heaven. And thus I have proved that immediately after the godly die, their souls are received into heaven: I have proved it by pregnant instances in the Scripture, by general expressions in the ⟨p. 196⟩Scripture, and by those express passages in Scripture, and have given you those absurdities, that will arise in case it should be denied.
Fifthly, this would follow that it would bee a great discomfort to a godly man on his death-bed, to think he should bee so many hundred yeares soule and body in the grave before Christ would bring him to Heaven; it would bee a very uncomfortable Doctrine for a man to thinke on, that I shall die like a beast, that my soule after death shall not bee taken up into Heaven. And thus I have proved that immediately after the godly die, their soules are received into heaven: I have proved it by pregnant instances in the Scripture, by generall expressions in the ⟨p. 196⟩Scripture, and by those expresse passages in Scripture, and have given you those absurdities, that will arise in case it should be denyed.
A word now from what hath been spoken. If it be that Christ doth receive thee, O thou believer, to himself, before the total and complete reception, I would then give you this use for to comfort you.
A word now from what hath been spoken. If it bee that Christ doth receive thee, O thou beleever, to himselfe, before the totall and compleat reception, I would then give you this use for to comfort you.