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…

There is some difference between a few Interpreters touching the sense of these words, one carrieth it this way, that here the promise of Christs coming he made it a little before he was to die, saith Christ, Be not troubled for I will come again. Some refer that promise of coming again, not to the last coming, but they refer it to that forty days that he was upon the Earth, after his Resurrection to the Ascension; they refer that this promise was accomplished, ⟨p. 132⟩and then I will receive you unto my self, they make that to be nothing but this, that Christ after his Resurrection did come to his Disciples, and did eat a broiled Fish with them, and stayed forty days with them. Why what comfort would this be to the Disciples to think of Christs going away and coming again, and stay but forty days, and then be seen no more? And this would have made them the more sorrowful, that they should never have seen him more. Here are two or three reasons from the Text, why that cannot be the sense of the place, because here was a promise before that he was going to his Fathers House; Now that living upon the Earth forty days after his Resurrection, cannot be his Fathers House, but he being in his Fathers House, this cannot therefore be meant of Christs being coming again at that time to them. Again, that it is said, where he was to go, he was to go to prepare a place for them, now if his meaning had been that he would come again at forty days, it should have been an Earthly place that he had prepared for them; But the current of Interpreters, seeing the weakness of that, gives many consequent reasons why it must necessarily be referred to Christs last coming, receiving of them everlasting, when the body shall be raised, that here Christs coming again ⟨p. 133⟩it refers to no other coming but to his great and last coming to judge the World, and at that coming he hath promised the Elect, that he will receive them unto himself; As if he should have said, Though I leave your bodies behind me in the World for a season, though they may be mangled and massacred by cruel Persecutors, and though you may be without my bodily presence for a while, yet I do not go to Heaven to stay there for ever, but I promise you, I will come again, and then I will take you into Heaven with me.

There is some difference betweene a few Interpreters touching the sence of these words, one carrieth it this way, that here the promise of Christs coming hee made it a little before hee was to die, saith Christ, Bee not troubled for I will come againe. Some referre that promise of coming againe, not to the last coming, but they referre it to that forty dayes that hee was upon the Earth, after his Resurrection to the Ascension; they referre that this promise was accomplished,