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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.
Now before I come to the Application, there are two Objections which lye in the way. As in the primitive times there were the Sadducees that held there was no resurrection, and after Christs time there was Hymeneus and Philetus, which said that the Resurrection was past already, and the Church of Corinth was tainted with this Error, if Christ be risen from the dead, how say some amongst you, that there is no Resurrection of the dead? Now in the Primitive and Christs time, there was this Opinion, that there was no Resurrection of the Body, and so made this merely but a poetical fiction, and to be no real and undoubted truth.
Now before I come to the Application, there are two Objections which lye in the way. As in the primitive times there were the Sadduces that held there was no resurrection, and after Christs time there was Hymeneus and Philetus, which said that the Resurrection was past already, and the Church of Corinth was tainted with this Error, if Christ be risen from the dead, how say some amongst you, that there is no Resurrection of the dead? Now in the Primitive and Christs time, there was this Opinion, that there was no Resurrection of the Body, and so made this meerely but a poeticall fiction, and to be no reall and undoubted truth.
The Scripture which they urge is this, you talk of the Body being raised by Christ, how can this be when the Apostle saith expressly, the Body is made of flesh and blood, 1 Cor. 15. 50. Now this I say Brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Therefore if flesh and blood cannot come to Gods Kingdom, how then can the Body come there.
The Scripture which they urge is this, you talke of the Body being raised by Christ, how can this bee when the Apostle saith expresly, the Body is made of flesh and blood, 1 Cor. 15. 50