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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
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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 gues•es) 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.
Fifthly, thy body from being a heavy and lumpish body as now it is, shall bee 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 wee beleeve that Jesus Christ dyed and rose againe, even them also which sleep in Iesus, will God bring with him. Which the body could not doe, if the body did not lose its lumpishnesse and heavinesse which it hath here Zanchy doth illustrate it by this comparison; • saith he the body is like the Chick in the agge, the Bird in the egge strives not, but when it is flusht, then it can flie; so, when thou ar• raised, thou canst goe 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 wee may beleeve their gues•es) above 40 Millions of Miles: now the soule hath a lumpish body that it cannot follow the soule, therefore the body shall bee made conformable to the Soule; the body is now a tyred Jade to the Soule, but then it shall not be so.