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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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First, by those mens Principles, this inconvenience will follow, that people may exactly know the punctual time of Christs last coming to judge the World, for those who hold Christs personal Reign, they do as well hold the time as the thing, they do as well maintain when this Reign shall begin; Therefore some have maintained that Christ should come to Reign on the Earth in the year, 1650. One saith if it shall not be in the year 1650, it shall be in the year 1694. They that go furthest give at that time, if so be they hold the thing, and maintain the time when it shall begin, then of necessity, we must know exactly when the day shall be that Christ shall come to judge the World, for they grant it shall be immediately after the thousand years; Now Beloved, that Opinion that carries this absurdity to know the day of Christs coming to judge the World, which Christ saith, none in the World can tell, of that hour and day knoweth no man. Mark. 13.32. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Therefore it cannot possibly be that Christ must come on the Earth, therefore those that live at least to see Christ come from Heaven, they cannot tell to a Day when ⟨p. 86⟩CHRIST shall come to judge the World.
First, by those mens Principles, this inconvenience will follow, that people may exactly know the punctuall time of Christs last coming to judge the World, for those who hold Christs personall Reigne, they do as well hold the time as the thing, they doe as well maintaine when this Reigne shall begin; Therefore some have maintained that Christ should come to Reigne on the Earth in the yeare, 1650. One saith if it shall not be in the yeare 1650, it shall be in the yeare 1694. They that goe furthest give at that time, if so be they hold the thing, and maintaine the time when it shall begin, then of necessity, wee must know exactly when the day shall be that Christ shall come to judge the World, for they grant it shal be imediately after the thousand yeares; Now Beloved, that Opinion that carries this absurdity to know the day of Christs coming to judge the World, which Christ saith, none in the World can tell, of that houre and day knoweth no man. Mark. 13.32. But of that day and houre knoweth no man, no not the Angells which are in Heaven, neither the Sonne, but the Father. Therefore it cannot possibly be that Christ must come on the Earth, therefore those that live at least to see Christ come from Heaven, they cannot tell to a Day when