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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.
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.
Fourthly, the bodies of the elect from being lyable to sorrows and sufferings in the world, shall bee made ⟨p. 202⟩impassive bodies, the body here is exposed to Diseases, Aches, Consumptions and what not? the body it is an Hospitall of Diseases, a Magazine of all Infirmities, but the Lord shall make this body impassive; lyable to no sufferings, God shall then wipe a way all teares from our eies, no sorrows, no crying, nor no paine, there is the great happinesse of the body, it shall be made impassive, not lyable to hunger, thirst, paine, Diseases, and the like.
Fifthly, thy body from being a heavy and lumpish body as now it is, shall be made an agile and swift body, the Eagle shall not flee so strongly, as the bodies of the Elect shall flee from place to place and it is grounded from that Scripture, 1 Thess. 4. 14. for if we believe that Jesus Christ dyed and rose again, even them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. Which the body could not do, if the body did not lose its lumpishness and heaviness which it hath here Zanchy doth illustrate it by this comparison; • saith he the body is like the Chick in the age, the Bird in the egg strives not, but when it is flushed, then it can fly; so, when thou ar raised, thou canst go from one part of the world to another in a moment; so was Christs body when it was raised, Christ was taken immediately up into heaven, which is as Astronomers say; (if we may believe their gueses) above 40 Millions of Miles: now the soul hath a lumpish body that it cannot follow the soul, therefore the body shall be made conformable to the Soul; the body is now a tired Jade to the Soul, but then it shall not be so.