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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.
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. Now this I say Brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Therefore if flesh and blood cannot come to Gods Kingdom, how then can the Body come there.
First, I answer, it cannot be the Apostles intent to impugn the bodies rising, for the drift of the whole Chapter is to prove that the Body shall be raised; therefore it is not imaginable that in one breath the Apostle should deny, and affirm the same thing.
First, I answer, it cannot bee the Apostles intent to impugne the bodies rising, for the drift of the whole Chapter is to prove that the Body shall be raised; therefore it is not imaginable that in one breath the Apostle should deny, and affirme the same thing.
Secondly, the Apostle doth understand by flesh and blood, the bodies of men as they have sinful infirmities, cleaving to them in this world, the body as it is now a sinful body, an infirm body, a weak mortal body as it is now shall never come to Heaven; the generality of Interpreters