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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.
Thirdly, be not afraid nor unwilling to die, because thy Body shall be changed by Death, if thy Body should not die, it would never be a glorified Body; keep your Corn in your House, and you will never have a Crop▪ but cast your Corn into the ground and let it die there; saith the Apostle, that thou sowest is never quickened till it die, let your Body be kept alive here in the world, and it shall never be raised to glory; O do not th•n be unwilling to die, because death to an Elect man is as a laying of Corn in the Earth. As Corn doth rot in the ground to spring again, against the Harvest; So doth thy Body rot in the Grave, to spring again at the Resurrection.
Thirdly, bee not afraid nor unwilling to die, because thy Body shall bee changed by Death, if thy Body should not die, it would never be a glorified Body; keep your Corne in your House, and you will never have a Crop▪ but cast your Corne into the ground and let it die there; saith the Apostle, that thou sowest is never quickened till it die, let your Body bee kept alive here in the world, and it shall never be raised to glory; O do not th•n be unwilling to die, because death to an Elect man is as a laying of Corne in the Earth. As Corne doth rot in the ground to spring againe, against the Harvest; So doth thy Body rot in the Grave, to spring againe at the Resurrection.
Fourthly, if this be true that Jesus Christ will raise thy Body unto glory, O then do not abuse these Bodies of yours; they are the Temples of the Holy Ghost, these Bodies of yours shall one day be raised, and received by Jesus Christ. It is an argument that the Apostle raiseth, 1 Cor. 6. 14, 15. vers. And God hath both raised up the Lord by his own Power; know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the Members of Harlots? God forbid. This is the Apostles Argument. The Apostle would reason against Adultery and Uncleanness in the body, what argument doth he use? Know ye this, Christ will raise up our bodies, and shall we take these Members of our bodies, and make them the members of a Where? So then Beloved, let the Doctrine of your Resurrection, and of your bodies being raised and received to Jesus Christ, provoke you that you do not abuse your Bodies. He that keeps company with a Harlot, sinneth against his own Body,