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A49255 The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the priviledge of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ... Love, Christopher, 1618-1651. 1657 (1657) Wing L3171; ESTC R3803 178,515 248

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peremptory conclusions about this dark and obscure Doctrin of Christs coming to judge the world There are many loose and lavish frolick wits that have bold and adventurous attempts touching the coming of the Lord in determining that which the Scripture determineth not it is not my intent to trouble you with ni●●ties but onely to check the frollick and bold attempts of some who goe about to determine that which the Scripture doth no way reveale to which end take heed of these things First take heed of determining the place from whence Christ should come The Papists they are bold thi● way they hold you in hand that Christ shall come from the East Therefore our Churches all of them were built East and West and upon that ground that Christ would come from the East the Scripture saith that Christ shall come as lightning from the East but that doth not shew the place from whence hee comes but as Christ shall come as Lightning it notes the visibility of Christs coming and the celerity of Christs coming Lightning it is visible and so shall Christs coming bee all shall see him as yee see Lightning Now this bold attempt hath been the foundation to many Superstitions Opinions it is the reason of bowing and c●inging towards the East All rose meerely from that ground of Christs coming from the East the Scripture onely saith that hee shall come downe from Heaven and the Lord shall come from Heaven but from what part of the heaven the scripture speaketh not Againe passe not bold conjectures in determining the place where Christ shall come to judge the world many men where the Scripture is silent doe run into many strong conceits to determine that which the Scripture doth not many Books doe determine the place where Christ shall come to judge the world and that is in the Valley of Iehoshaphat and there is one Text which seemes to carry it that way which is in Ioel 3. 12. Let the Heathen bee awaked and come up to the Valley of Iehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the Heathen round about Here they doe conjecture that Christ shall come to the Valley of Iehoshaphat and there hee shall judge all the world and I shall to shew the vanity and wickednesse of these give these five demonstrations First it is not spoken of God the Sonne but of God the father to bee thy judge therefore it cannot have a reference to the last Judgement for Christ judgeth then Secondly their Judgement here onely referres to the Judging of the Heathen round about Now the generall judgement is for the judging of the righteous and the unrighteous Thirdly that it is impossible that the Valley of Iehoshaphat should containe all the men that ever were that are and that shall bee in the world to bee judged therefore it is not profitable that this hath reference to the last Judgement Fourthly the time that this judgement here is spoken of it is limited by the prophet himselfe for compare this verse with the second verse I will also gather all Nations and will bring them downe into the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my People and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the Nations and parted my Land The time is spoken of when God shall turne againe the captivity of Iudah and Ierusalem then God should judge the Babylonians and those heathen Nations that assisted them for to undo the people of God therfore it refers to some time after the captivity not to the general and last coming of the Sonne of God and thus much for taking off that Text from yeelding patronage to that fond conceit of Christs coming to judge the world in the Valley of Iehoshaphat and the Scripture is farre from giving you the place where Christ shall come to judgement either in the Valley of Iehoshaphat or Mount Olivet out only in the ayre 1 Thess 4. 7. Then wee which are alive and remaine shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the Aire and so shall we ever be with the Lord. The Scripture doth make no mention of Christs coming upon the Earth at all Take heed of bold attempts and conjectures about the place of Christs judgement Thirdly take heed of bold attempts about the time of Christs judgement there have been them which have shewne abundance of wickednesse in this Gerrard doth confute the folly of such men that do guesse at the time when Christ shall come to judge the world Austin doth make mention of some in his time that held that Christ should come to judge the world a thousand years after his Death but wee have seen their folly and shame for there is more time expired then that Another saith that some held in his time that Christ should come to judge the world 365. yeares after his Death that is a folly likewise for there is more time past then that Luther saith that there were Anabapists which held that in the yeare 1530 Christ should come to judge the world but wee have seen their folly likewise for there is more time past then then that Napier though a learned Nobleman in Scotland hee was too frolick in this way for he doth boldly say that Christ shall come to judge the world in the yeare 1688. But beloved Christs coming to judge the world cannot be determined for Christ would not gratifie his own Apostles to tell them the time when his coming should bee Mat. 24. Hee would not tell them when the end of the word should bee it shews then it is great pride of heart to passe peremptory conjectures upon the period of time Christ did not thinke it meet for to tell his Apostles of the time of his coming 1 Thess 5. 1. But of the times and seasons Brethren yee have no need that I write unto you nay Angels in heaven and Christ himselfe as hee was meere Man could not tell the time Marke 13. 32. But of that day and that houre knoweth no man no not the Angels which are in heaven neither the Sonne but the Father Mat. 24. 36. But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels of Heaven but my father onely I onely mention it for this to shew the vanity of our age of those who will undertake to shew the very day when Christ should come Likewise to condemne the former Ages who run to things not revealed I remember what a learned Man saith one that commenteth upon my Text saith hee there is nothing that doth expose the Christian Religion to more contempt then that the Preachers and the hearers of it will run into nice questions and bee peremptory in their resolves of that the Scripture speakes not of And Jews and Gentiles may suspect the whole Gospell because they see Men peremptory about things which are not revealed in the Gospell and shall see their false-hood appearing to all bee not peremptory in
is why should wee bee as children to looke on death as a Bugheare but looke upon death as being a passage unto thy fathers house as being a Trap-doore to let thee in where Jesus Christ is Gen. 45. 25 27. And they went up out of Egypt and came into the Land of Canaan unto Jacob their father and they told him all the words of Joseph which hee had said unto them and when hee saw the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of Jacob their father revived Did Jacob rejoyce to see a waggon or a chariot that would carry him into Aegypt to see his Son Ioseph and wilt not thou rejoyce to think that death is a chariot to carry thee to Jesus Christ to carry thee to heaven O therefore let not thy heart bee troubled to dye because death is but a chariot to carry thee to heaven Is Christ gone into heaven Then secondly labour thou whilest thou livest on the earth to ascend to Christ in divine and holy Ejaculations and Meditations Is Christ in heaven then why should not thy heart be where thy head is why shouldest thou bee grovelling on the earth seeing thy Christ is now in heaven It is a speech of Christ Canticles 3. 6. Who is this that cometh out of the wildernesse like Pillars of smoke perfumed with Myrrhe and Frankincense with all powders of the Merchant Thou shouldest ascend up to Christ though thou beest in trouble in the Wildernesse of this world O ascend up to Christ in Holy Meditations this use the Apostle makes of it Colos 3. 1. If yee then bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right Hand of God The argument is where Christ sits at the right Hand of God set your affections there and so in Phil. 3. 20. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also wee look for the Saviour the Lord Iesus Christ Christ is in heaven there●ore our conversation must bee where our head is It is a notable Text Mat. 24. 28. For wheresoever the Carkase is there will the Eagles be gathered together That Christ is in heaven it should make you ascend in your hearts heavenward It is true there are some that wrest these words and give this sense of them that they make the carkase to be the Jewes and the Eagles to be the Romans because the Romans did use the Eagle in their Banner and Ensigne of War therefore they say where the Jewes were the Romans should come though this was a truth yet not the scope of the Text it is generally overthrown by most Interpreters but Gerrard doth chiefly referre these words to the day of judgement where the carkase is thither will the Eagles resort that is where Jesus Christ is in heaven as the Eagles doe follow after the carkase to feed upon that so the people of God shall be gathered about Jesus Christ and this I doe confesse is the chiefe scope of the place and doe beleeve it is the chiefe intendment of the holy Ghost but Gerrard hee makes another use of it too and referres it to the power and efficacy of the Gospell in this life Christ is now in heaven saith Gerrard and the Gospel shal be so powerful on men in the world that it shal make men as eager to come after Christ into heaven as the Eagle is after the prey Thirdly I inferre hence that before you presume to apply the benefits and the comforts of Christs ascension into heaven labour to feele in your own hearts the efficacy of Christs Death and ascension every man applies the benefit of Christs Death and Resurrection and Christs ascension before they find the efficacy of his Death the efficacy of his resurrection It is the Apostles word saith he I labor to find the power of his resurrction so do you labor to find the power of his Death and the power of his ascension before you find the comfort of it It is to make thee lesse Earthly-minded more passionately eager and importunatly earnest after the Lord Iesus Christ dost thou feele the power of the ascension to make thee more heavenly minded and lesse earthly minded O labour to feele the efficacy and power of it else I might say to you as Iacob said to his mother in Genesis 28. 12. My father peradveuture will feele mee and I shall seeme to him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse and not a blessing Nay without peradventure God will feele and try whether you are the men or no that have right to the blessing that shall have any reall advantage and benefit by Christs Death by Christs ascension God will try whether you doe not seek to deceive your Souls and deceive God himselfe if so you will rather have a curse then a blessing if you seeke to apply the comfort of Christs ascension before you feele the efficacy of it on your own hearts Ques How did Christ ascend Answ 1 First Christ went to heaven visibly in Act. 1. It was no transient glance of the Eye but they stedfastly beheld Jesus Christ they saw him when he went away Again Secondly Christ went to heaven bodily therefore those doe erre that hold that onely his soule did go to heaven and his body perished as other do Thirdly hee went to heaven locally hee ascended locally there are some men that hold that every place is heaven where God is that is a truth but heaven is a distinct place from the Earth and Hell Christ had a mutation of place from the Earth to the third Heaven therefore saith hee the earth shall hold me no more Fourthly hee did ascend into heaven powerfully Indeed other men went to heaven bodily not by their own strength but it was by a borrowed strength Elias had a fiery chariot to carry him to heaven but Christ had none for he went to heaven by his own strength Lastly Christ went to heaven eminently and singly There are three bodies in heaven there is the bodie of Enoch the body of Elias and the body of Christ all else in heaven are onely Saints and Angels Enoch went to heaven bodily as a type of Christs ascension before the Law and Elias unde the Law and Christ under the Gospell Divines say that this shewes there was salvation by Christ before the Law and salvation by Christ under the Law and salvation by Christ in the time of the Gospell but there is difference between their going to heaven First Enoch and Elias went to heaven but they did not die and rise from the dead and then ascend into heaven but first Christ dyed and then Christ was raised out of the Grave and then within forty daies hee did ascend into heaven there was one difference Again they did not ascend to heaven by their own strength but by the power of God they did ascend into heaven but we have got no good by their ascension no benefit nor merit accrues unto us by