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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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This Chapter out of which my Text is taken, is counted famous by most Interpreters, because in it, begins the Legacy that Christ gives, and the last Will and Testament that Christ made when he was to leave the World, and this Will and Testament of Christs begins in the 14th Chap. and continues to the 18 Chapter of this Book. The scope and drift of this Chapter, it is to comfort his Disciples both against their fears of persecution in the World, as also against their sorrows, upon this Consideration that Christ was shortly to leave this World, and Christ doth here mention many comfortable considerations before them, that they were to be left without a guide, that Christ was shortly ⟨p. 2⟩to leave this World and go to his Father; •t much troubled them; It went ill with them when Christ was with them, and they thought it would have been worse with them when he was gone, and he doth encourage them by these Arguments.
THis Chapter out of which my Text is taken, is counted famous by most Interpreters, because in it, begins the Legacy that Christ gives, and the last Will and Testament that Christ made when he was to leave the World, and this Will and Testament of Christs begins in the 14th Chap. and continues to the 18 Chapter of this Book. The scope and drift of this Chapter, it is to comfort his Disciples both against their feares of persecution in the World, as also against their sorrowes, upon this Consideration that Christ was shortly to leave this World, and Christ doth here mention many comfortable considerations before them, that they were to be left without a guide, that Christ was shortly ⟨p. 2⟩to leave this World and go to his Father; •t much troubled them; It went ill with them when Christ was with them, and they thought it would have been worse with them when hee was gone, and he doth encourage them by these Arguments.
First, he saith, I am but going to my Fathers House, and the 28 vers. of this Chapter he saith, ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you, If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater then I.