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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.
Again, it may be comfort to thee, by reason of thy natural infirmities. Suppose thy body be a s••kly body, suppose thy body be full of A•hes, Agues, Consumptions, Diseases and the like, suppose thy body be maimed, Blind and Lame, yet remember thy body that is vile, deformed and sickly, it shall have fresh Robes of glory upon it, and be made like to the glorious Body of Jesus Christ.
Again, it may bee comfort to thee, by reason of thy naturall infirmities. Suppose thy body be a s••kly body, suppose thy body bee full of A•hes, Agues, Consumptions, Diseases and the like, suppose thy body bee maimed, Blinde and Lame, yet remember thy body that is vile, deformed and sickly, it shall have fresh Robes of glory upon it, and be made like to the glorious Body of Jesus Christ.
We read in the book of Martyrs, of two Martyrs that were to be burnt at Stratford Bow near London, one Hugh Laborocke, and John Price the one blind, & the other lame, this Price being full of fear when the fire was about him, saith Hugh unto him, be not troubled, though thou blind and I lame, yet remember death will heal thee of thy Blindness and me of Lameness. Suppose thou art blind, lame and maimed, Christs receiving of thy body will cure all, and truly there were comfort to a man ⟨p. 207⟩under a bodily distemper▪ when a man should think that this body of mine should rot in the Grave, and never be raised from the dead.
We read in the book of Martyrs, of two Martyrs that were to be burnt at Stratford Bow neer Lordon, one Hugh Laborocke, and Iohn Price the one blind, & the other lame, this Price being full of feare when the fire was about him, saith Hugh unto him, bee not troubled, though thou blinde and I lame, yet remember death will heale thee of thy Blindenesse and mee of Lamenesse. Suppose thou art blinde, lame and maymed, Christs receiving of thy body will cure all, and truly there were comfort to a man