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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 seventh property is Reflection. 1Reflection is one of the choicest Ingredients into Fruition: to enjoy Heaven in all the beatitudes thereof, and to know I do enjoy it, this is the beatitude of all beatitudes. Direct Acts and Privileges of Grace, scil. to believe, to love Christ, to be united to him, to have communion with him, to be clothed with his Righteousness, to be acted by his Spirit, &c. these may make a Christian safe, but (alone) they cannot make him sure: these may constitute a Christian happy, but not give him the comfort of his happiness: and how many precious Saints of God are there in this vale of tears, whose all consists in these bare naked direct acts; the new-born Babe, 2oft like the natural Babes in the womb, hath spiritual life in him, but he knoweth it not? how many gracious Souls believe, but know not they do believe? Yea, cannot believe, they do believe? They think they have no grace, because they have so much corruption; they think they have no grace, because they have not so much grace as they would have; they love Christ, but know not they love Christ: they covet so much love to Christ, that they seem to themselves to have none at all; they are united to Christ, and have communion with him, but can apprehend neither this nor the other. Et sic in caeteris.
A seventh property is Reflextion. 1Reflexion is one of the choicest Ingredients into Fruition: to enjoy Heaven in all the beatitudes thereof, and to know I do enjoy it, this is the beatitude of all beatitudes. Direct Acts and Priviledges of Grace, scil. to believe, to love Christ, to be united to him, to have communion with him, to be cloathed with his Righteousness, to be acted by his Spirit, &c. these may make a Christian safe, but (alone) they cannot make him sure: these may constitute a Christian happy, but not give him the comfort of his happiness: and how many precious Saints of God are there in this vale of tears, whose all consists in these bare naked direct acts; the new-born Babe, 2oft like the natural Babes in the womb, hath spiritual life in him, but he knoweth it not? how many gracious Souls believe, but know not they do believe? Yea, cannot believe, they do believe? They think they have no grace, because they have so much corruption; they think they have no grace, because they have not so much grace as they would have; they love Christ, but know not they love Christ: they covet so much love to Christ, that they seem to themselves to have none at all; they are united to Christ, and have communion with him, but can apprehend neither this nor the other. Et sic in caeteris.