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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.
Why doth Christ say that he is in Heaven, when yet he was in his body on the Earth?
First, that Christ saith I am, denotes the certainty of Christs going to Heaven, that he should be there as sure as if he were there. Babylon is fallen, why the the Popedom is not fallen, yet it shall be as sure as if it were fallen. It is to note ⟨p. 210⟩§2Secondly, the suddenness of it, Christ was shortly to be in Heaven; there was but one day between Christ and his being in Heaven, things suddenly to be done, they are said to be done, things that are near a doing are said to be done.
First, that Christ saith I am, denotes the certainty of Christs going to Heaven, that hee should bee there as sure as if he were there. Babylon is fallen, why the the Popedome is not fallen, yet it shall be as sure as if it were fallen. It is to note ⟨p. 210⟩§2Secondly, the suddennesse of it, Christ was shortly to bee in Heaven; there was but one day betweene Christ and his being in Heaven, things suddenly to bee done, they are said to be done, things that are neer a doing are said to bee done.
Thirdly, which is the reason the Gerrard gives; Christ doth express it in the present Tense, where I am, though he were on Earth, to show that Christ was truly God as well as man, and in regard of his Divine Nature he was truly in Heaven, as in regard of his Human Nature he was on Earth. Thus much for the manner of expression, that where I am, there you may be also; the latter part is this, that they might be with Christ where he is.