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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, the bodies of the Elect must be raised, because of the inhabitation of the Spirit; the Spirit doth sanctify ⟨p. 198⟩the bodies of the Elect, as well as the souls, the very God of peace sanctify you throughout, and I pray God that your soul, Spirit and Body, be kept blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 6. 18, 19, 20. Flee Fornication, every sin that a man doth, is without the body, but he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own body. What, know ye not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a price; Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods. Now the spirit of God having a gracious work in the body as well as the soul; Therefore the body must be raised up from the dead as well as the soul; and this the Scripture makes an Argument of the resurrection in Rom. 8. 11. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. So that spirit that raised up Christ from the dead, if that dwelleth in you, and the graces of the spirit, that spirit shall quicken your mortal bodies; therefore the bodies of the Elect shall be raised from the dead and received into glory with the soul.
Secondly, the bodies of the Elect must be raised, because of the inhabitation of the Spirit; the Spirit doth sanctifie ⟨p. 198⟩the bodies of the Elect, as well as the soules, the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout, and I pray God that your soule, Spirit and Body, bee kept blamelesse unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 6. 18, 19, 20. Flee Fornication, every sinne that a man doth, is without the body, but he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own body. What, know yee not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you, which yee have of God, and yee are not your owne? for yee are bought with a price; Therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods. Now the spirit of God having a gracious worke in the body as well as the soule; Therefore the body must be raised up from the dead as well as the soule; and this the Scripture makes an Argument of the resurrection in