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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, from being a mortal body, it shall be by him an immortal body; the body as it is here, it is a mortal body dying and rotting in the grave, but it shall be made by Christ immortal, 1 Cor. 15. 52, 53. In a Moment, in the Twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. Those mortal bodies that must die, must be made immortal, and those incorruptible bodies, made incorruptible and never die, this is the great happiness of the elect, that their bodies shall be made immortal bodies.
Thirdly, from being a mortall body, it shall bee by him an immortall body; the body as it is here, it is a mortall body dying and rotting in the grave, but it shall bee made by Christ immortall, 1 Cor. 15. 52, 53. In a Moment, in the Twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall bee raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortality. Those mortall bodies that must die, must bee made immortall, and those incorruptible bodies, made incorruptible and never die, this is the great happiness of the elect, that their bodies shall bee made immortall bodies.
Fourthly, the bodies of the elect from being liable to sorrows and sufferings in the world, shall be made ⟨p. 202⟩impassive bodies, the body here is exposed to Diseases, Aches, Consumptions and what not? the body it is an Hospital of Diseases, a Magazine of all Infirmities, but the Lord shall make this body impassive; liable to no sufferings, God shall then wipe a way all tears from our eyes, no sorrows, no crying, nor no pain, there is the great happiness of the body, it shall be made impassive, not liable to hunger, thirst, pain, Diseases, and the like.