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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.
Then again, Peter, James, and John, knew Moses in the transfiguration, Mat. 13. Then again the godly they knew the damned in Hell: Therefore certainly they may know one another in Heaven. It is said in Mat. 8. 11. And I say unto you▪ that many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven. I do ⟨image 124⟩not give you this for certain, I am loath in things controversial, tossed to and fro by learned Men, rashly to determine; but there are strong Hints to build hopes on, that in thy knowing of Christ in Person, and when the bodies of the Elect shall be raised, thou shalt know the bodies of thy Elected Friends. Bolton here thinks it should detract much from the happiness of every Saint in Heaven, if every Saint should not know one another, which knew one another here upon Earth, this adds much to this happiness, in that they shall have a sociable Communion in being with Christ in Person where he is. And thus much for the Adjuncts of this Condition, that where Christ is, there ye may be also […].
Then againe, Peter, James, and Iohn, knew Moses in the transfiguration, Mat. 13. Then againe the godly they knew the damned in Hell: Therefore certainly they may know one another in Heaven. It is said in Mat. 8. 11. And I say unto you▪ that many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit downe with Abraham and Isaac, and Iacob, in the Kingdome of Heaven. I doe ⟨image 124⟩not give you this for certaine, I am loath in things controversall, tossed to and fro by learned Men, rashly to determine; but there are strong Hints to build hopes on, that in thy knowing of Christ in Person, and when the bodies of the Elect shall be raised, thou shalt know the bodies of thy Elected Friends. Bolton here thinks it should detract much from the happinesse of every Saint in Heaven, if every Saint should not know one another, which knew one another here upon Earth, this addes much to this happinesse, in that they shall have a sociable Communion in being with Christ in Person where he is. And thus much for the Adjuncts of this Condition, that where Christ is, there ye may be also .