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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, it is evident that this Scripture cannot be a Foundation to build on, that Christ shall come to reign a thousand years on the Earth, then it will not only follow that men shall live so long, but shall reign with Christ so long on the Earth. Methuselah lived but nine hundred sixty and nine years, and David saith, the life of man is cut short. The Text saith, they shall live and reign with Christ, in that sense, taking living properly, and all the Phrases properly, they must necessarily say that men shall live when that time comes, that men shall live a thousand years together. Then, it cannot be the sense of the Scripture, because that cannot be the sense of this Scripture which crosseth the sense of other Scriptures, to make this Scripture to affirm that Christ shall reign on the Earth a thousand years, for other Scriptures tell you that Christ shall stay in Heaven in person, till all men shall rise from the Dead, every man shall rise, then cometh the end. 1 Cor. 15.23, 24. But every man in his own order, Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that are Christs, at his coming. Then cometh the end, &c. 2 Thess. 2.1. Now we beseech you Brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him. Then besides it doth cross the Scripture to say that at Christs coming, only some men shall arise, ⟨p. 94⟩but not all. Job 14.10, 11, 12. But man dieth and wasteth away, yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the Sea, and the Flood decayeth and dryeth up; So man lieth down, and riseth not, till the Heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job telleth you expressly, That the dead shall not be raised till the Heavens be no more, and that cannot be the thousand years, for there will be a Earth, and a Heaven then; And in Peters phrase, The Heavens shall melt away like a scroll, &c. Now to make a Resurrection, before a Resurrection, it is that which the Scripture doth no where mention, John 5.28, 29. Marvell not at this, for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice. And shall come forth, they that have done good, unto the Resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the Resurrection of damnation.