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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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Again, if the Souls of wicked men be in Hell before Christs time, then the Souls of godly men must be in heaven before Christs time, that must clearly follow by the Rules of contrary; now that wicked men went to Hell is clear Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to Fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal Fire. They went to hell before Christs time, therefore clear it must follow that the Elect must go to Heaven before Christs time.
Againe, if the Soules of wicked men be in Hell before Christs time, then the Soules of godly men must bee in heaven before Christs time, that must clearly follow by the Rules of contrary; now that wicked men went to Hell is cleare Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to Fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternall Fire. They went to hell before Christs time, therefore cleare it must follow that the Elect must goe to Heaven before Christs time.
Fourthly, there is the very same reason why Believers should go to heaven before Christs Ascension, as there is why they should go to heaven after Christs Ascension, because Believers under the old Testament, they had the same Gospel preached to them as now we have, and they had the same Spirit, the same Faith, the same Christ, and under the same Covenant, and therefore why must they not go to the same place? I shall clearly prove this unto you. First, they had the same Spirit and the same Faith that we had, and this is laid down by the Apostle, in 2 Cor. 4.13. We having the same Spirit of Faith, according as it is ⟨p. 45⟩