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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A third Ingredient, of which Fruition doth consist, 1is Intimacy: Propriety and Possession are not sufficient to constitute fruition: Mutual converse will not serve the turn, without intimate communion: Communion not with one another's persons only, but with one another's spirits; this is fruition, when friends are possest of one another's heart, and one another's spirits. 2This is the great beatitude of heaven, even vital vision, with all the beatifying objects thereof; mutual in dwelling, and mutual in being. God dwells in the Saints, and the Saints dwell in God: It was so here, God is Love: He that dwells in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. The Saints love to God is now made perfect (without a figure) and as their love is, so is their mutual in being, perfect; I in them, 3and they in me, that they may be made perfect in one: Perfect, according to the supreme Exemplar, 4As thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may he one in us: This also had its imitation on earth, it hath now its consummation in heaven; the Saints can be no nearer God than they are: (Essential union is the sole prerogative of the glorious Trinity:) They dwell also, in Christ; I in them, and they in me: Eternity is their wedding day, Heaven their bride-chamber, their bed of love is the heart of Christ, and it is always green, always fresh, and always flourishing with interchangeable loves.
A third Ingredient, of which Fruition doth consist, 1is Intimacy: Propriety and Possession are not sufficient to constitute fruition: Mutual converse will not serve the turn, without intimate communion: Communion not with one anothers persons only, but with one anothers spirits; this is fruition, when friends are possest of one anothers heart, and one anothers spirits. 2This is the great beatitude of heaven, even vital vision, with all the beatifying objects thereof; mutual in dwelling, and mutual in being. God dwells in the Saints, and the Saints dwell in God: It was so here, God is Love: He that dwells in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. The Saints love to God is now made perfect (without a figure) and as their love is, so is their mutual in being, perfect; I in them,