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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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A second Inference is this, will Jesus Christ at his coming raise thy body, and receive thy whole man unto himself? ⟨p. 166⟩Then learn to have elongation of soul after the second coming of Jesus Christ; Therefore do not desire to continue here upon Earth, but to be dissolved, and to be with Jesus Christ. Will any man be grieved for changing of an old suite for a new? Death doth this, thou hast here an old rotten rag of flesh about thee, why Christ will put a new suit on thee; Therefore the Apostle calls it the desire of the body is to be clothed upon, we do not desire to be in Heaven without bodies, but we desire to be clothed upon, with those glorious endowments, wherewith the elect shall be clad in glory; Therefore be not unwilling to die, do not be unwilling to leave an old rotten Carcass, a sickly body, a Diseased body. Put a Bird into a Cage, though the Cage be made of Silver, or Gold, yet the Bird had rather fly abroad, then be tide up in the Cage. O thou whilst in the body art in a Cage, thou hadst better have thy body in a glorified capacity then now it is.
A second Inference is this, will Jesus Christ at his coming raise thy body, and receive thy whole man unto himselfe? ⟨p. 166⟩Then learne to have elongation of soule after the second coming of Jesus Christ; Therefore doe not desire to continue here upon Earth, but to be dissolved, and to be with Jesus Christ. Will any man be grieved for changing of an old suite for a new? Death doth this, thou hast here an old rotten ragge of flesh about thee, why Christ will put a new sute on thee; Therefore the Apostle calls it the desire of the body is to be cloathed upon, wee doe not desire to be in Heaven without bodies, but wee desire to bee cloathed upon, with those glorious endowments, wherewith the elect shall be clad in glory; Therefore be not unwilling to die, doe not be unwilling to leave an old rotten Carcasse, a sickly body, a Diseased body. Put a Bird into a Cage, though the Cage be made of Silver, or Gold, yet the Bird had rather flie abroad, then bee tide up in the Cage. O thou whilest in the body art in a Cage, thou hadst better have thy body in a glorified capacity then now it is.