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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.
I shall open the words, for there is some difficulty in one Expression, where I am you see it is a word in the present sense, where I am, and though it be a word of the present Tense, it doth not denote thus much that that they should be at Jerusalem with Christ; for Christ was then at Jerusalem▪ but as Grotius saith, that here the word of the present Tense, is to be understood of the suture Tense, that is, where I shall be shortly after I leave this world where I shall be there you shall be, and so he doth bring that Text to prove it. Joh. 7. 34. Ye shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I am, thither ye cannot come. It cannot be taken in the present Tense, for he was then […] Jerusalem, but it is to be understood in the future Tense, where I shall be, I go, but I come again, that where I shall be when I come to my Fathers House in Heaven, I may have all your companies to be personally present with me in Heaven; that is the scope of the word.
I shall open the words, for there is some difficulty in one Expression, where I am you see it is a word in the present sense, where I am, and though it bee a word of the present Tense, it doth not denote thus much that that they should bee at Jerusalem with Christ; for Christ was then at Jerusalem▪ but as Grotius saith, that here the word of the present Tense, is to be understood of the suture Tense, that is, where I shall be shortly after I leave this world where I shall be there you shall be, and so hee doth bring that Text to prove it. Joh. 7. 34. Ye shall seeke me and shall not finde mee, and where I am, thither yee cannot come. It cannot bee taken in the present Tense, for he was then 〈…〉 Jerusalem, but it is to bee understood in the future Tense, where I shall bee, I goe, but I come againe, that where I shall bee when I come to my Fathers House in Heaven, I may have all your companies to be personally present with mee in Heaven; that is the scope of the word.