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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 third thing that makes much for the blessedness of the Elect, that in thy being present with Jesus Christ, God gives thee more honour then ever thou couldest be capable of in former time, God gives thee Glory by virtue of thy being with Jesus Christ, a notable Text, Joh. 1. 26 verse, If any man serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall also my servant be; If any man serve me, him will my Father honour. That is, where I shall be in Heaven. Beloved, the time is now of giving honour to God, and giving Glory to God, but thy being where Christ is, God then gives thee Glory and gives thee Honour.
A third thing that makes much for the blessednesse of the Elect, that in thy being present with Jesus Christ, God gives thee more honour then ever thou couldest bee capable of in former time, God gives thee Glory by vertue of thy being with Jesus Christ, a notable Text, Joh. 1. 26 verse, If any man serve mee, let him follow mee, and where I am, there shall also my servant bee; If any man serve mee, him will my Father honour. That is, where I shall bee in Heaven. Beloved, the time is now of giving honour to God, and giving Glory to God, but thy being where Christ is, God then gives thee Glory and gives thee Honour.
Fourthly, thy happiness in being present with Christ where he is, is that thou shalt stand in no need of Ordinances: ⟨p. 213⟩beloved, here the highest grown Christian, and the strongest Believer in the World doth stand in more need of Ordinances then a lame man doth of Crutches to go by; but when thou comest to have this accomplishment, that thou shalt be where Christ is, thou then standest in no need of Ordinances, then what needs the Candlestick of Sermons; what needs the Candlestick of Preaching, and the Candlestick of Praying, when thou art present with Christ the Sun of righteousness; there is no need of conduit pipes, when thou art by the Fountain head, thou needst no Ordinances, the conduit pipes are the Ordinances, there is no need of Ordinances any longer then thou art absent from the Fountain, which is Jesus Christ, the ceremonial Law is all Gospel, it is a dark Gospel, the Evangelists are the explained Gospel the ceremonial Law is a dark Gospel,