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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.
A second Inference is this, will Jesus Christ at his comign raise thy body, and receive thy whole man unto himself? Then learn to have a thirsting and longing soul after the second coming of Jesus Christ; do not desire to continue here upon Barth, but to be dissolved and to be with Jesus Christ. will any man be grieved for changing of an old suit for a new? Death doth this, thou hast here an old rotten rag of flesh about thee, Christ will put a new suit on thee; therefore the Apostle calls it the desire of the body to be clothed upon, we do not desire to be in Heaven without Bodies, but we desire to be clothed upon, with those glorious endowments, where with the elect shall be clad in glory▪ Therefore be not unwilling to die, do not be unwilling to leave an old rotten Carcass, a sickly Body, a Diseased Body. Put a Bird into a Cage, though the Cage be made of Silver, of Gold, yet the Bird had rather fly abroad, then be tied up in the Cage. Whilst in the Body thou art in a Cage, thou hadst better have thy Body in a glorified capacity then now it is.
A second Inference is this, will Jesus Christ at his comign raise thy body, and receive thy whole man unto himselfe? Then learne to have a thirsting and longing soule after the second coming of Jesus Christ; doe not desire to continue here upon Barth, but to bee dissolved and to bee with Jesus Christ. will any man bee grieved for changing of an old sute for a new? Death doth this, thou hast here an old rotten ragge of flesh about thee, Christ will put a new sute on thee; therefore the Apostle calls it the desire of the body to bee cloathed upon, wee doe not desire to bee in Heaven without Bodies, but wee desire to bee cloathed upon, with those glorious endowments, where with the elect shall bee clad in glory▪ Therefore bee not unwilling to die, doe not be unwilling to leave an old rotten Carcasse, a sickly Body, a Diseased Body. Put a Bird into a Cage, though the Cage bee made of Silver, of Gold, yet the Bird had rather flie abroad, then be tied up in the Cage. Whilest in the Body thou art in a Cage, thou hadst better have thy Body in a glorified capacity then now it is.