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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.
Obser. The Observation is this; That Christ at his second coming receives the Elect unto himself in body and soul, that they might be for ever present where Jesus Christ is in Heaven, that where I am there you may be also. This Doctrine it is out of the common place. Here in setting out to you that this shall be the consequent of Christs great, and last coming to receive the Elect unto ⟨p. 211⟩himself; that where Christ is, there ye may be also; I shall show you the great blessedness in this condition in these eight or nine particulars.
Obser. The Observation is this; That Christ at his second coming receives the Elect unto himselfe in body and soule, that they might bee for ever present where Jesus Christ is in Heaven, that where I am there you may be also. This Doctrine it is out of the common place. Here in setting out to you that this shall bee the consequent of Christs great, and last coming to receive the Elect unto ⟨p. 211⟩himselfe; that where Christ is, there ye may be also; I shall shew you the great blessednesse in this condition in these eight or nine particulars.
First, that you will be more happy in being present with Jesus Christ in Heaven, then if you had been present with Adam in a state of Innocency; we should have thought our selves happy, to be as Adam was, to have had the immediate presence of God, we should have thought this a very happy and glorious Estate. Indeed so it was, but now, to be present with Christ in Heaven, thou art more happy ten thousand times, then if thou hadst been made when Adam was made, to have lived with him in Innocency.
First, that you will be more happy in being present with Jesus Christ in Heaven, then if you had been present with Adam in a state of Innocency; wee should have thought our selves happy, to be as Adam was, to have had the immediate presence of God, wee should have thought this a very happy and glorious Estate. Indeed so it was, but now, to bee present with Christ in Heaven, thou art more happy ten thousand times, then if thou hadst been made when Adam was made, to have lived with him in Innocency.