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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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Fourthly, the ascension of Christ, it overthrows the Opinion of the Carpocraciani that hold, that only his soul did go to Heaven, and his body perished as others; And this cannot be, for the Disciples said, that they saw Christ ascend, and this must be his Body, for they could not see his soul, for the soul is a spirit. Now you see the reason why I spent so much time in the morning in giving you many Texts of Scripture to prove this point: because there are so many Heretics that do ⟨p. 29⟩oppugn this Doctrine of CHRISTS Ascension. I now come to give you three or four practical deductions.
Fourthly, the ascension of Christ, it overthrows the Opinion of the Carpocraciani that hold, that onely his soule did goe to Heaven, and his body perished as others; And this cannot be, for the Disciples said, that they saw Christ ascend, and this must be his Body, for they could not see his soul, for the soule is a spirit. Now you see the reason why I spent so much time in the morning in giving you many Texts of Scripture to prove this poynt: because there are so many Hereticks that doe ⟨p. 29⟩oppugne this Doctrine of CHRISTS Ascension. I now come to give you three or foure practicall deductions.
First, is Christs body now in Heaven? then I infer; O thou that canst lay a grounded claim for an interest in Jesus Christ; O be not thou afraid to die, do not thou be afraid to die that canst lay a claim in Jesus Christ, because thy Christ is in Heaven, and when thou diest, death is but a Trap-door to let thee in to endless joy where Christ is, why should we be as children to look on death as a Bugbear, but look upon death as being a passage into thy Fathers house, as being a Trapdoor to let thee in where Jesus Christ is, Gen. 45.25.27. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the Land of Canaan, unto Jacob their Father. And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had said unto them, and when he saw the Waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their Father revived. Did Jacob rejoice to see a Wagon or a Chariot that would carry him into Egypt to see his Son Joseph, and wilt not thou rejoice to think that death is a chariot to carry thee to Jesus Christ, to carry thee to Heaven? O therefore let not thy heart be troubled to die, because death is but a chariot to carry thee to Heaven; Is Christ gone into heaven?