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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.
Surely the heavenly vision will beget so much more full and perfect conformity, by how much the mirror is more vital and energetical: The Apostle reacheth forth, this blessed truth and the reason of it together, as a known Doctrine.
Surely the heavenly vision will beget so much more full and perfect conformity, by how much the mirrour is more vital and energetical: The Apostle reacheth forth, this blessed truth and the reason of it together, as a known Doctrine.
Beloved, now we are the Sons of God, 1that were dignity enough for a poor sinner (one would think) I but that's not all; it is well, and it shall be better. God hath laid out much upon us; but how much glory he hath laid up for us we cannot conceive; it doth not yet appear what we shall be! This only we know, that when he shall appear we shall be like him! That's infinite honour indeed! But how doth he prove it? Why, he proves our conformity from our vision, we shall be like him, for we shall see him: Him, ver. 3. God in Christ; the Godhead in the glorified humane nature of Jesus Christ, even while he was here in the days of his flesh; the flesh of Christ was a, veil, 2through which the deity of Christ did appear, [Greek or Hebrew], God was conspicuous in the humane nature; 3the invisible God was, as it were, made visible in a body of flesh: We beheld his glory (says the Evangelist) if it were so upon earth, how much more will it be verified in heaven? The glorified body of our Lord will be as transparent ⟨p. 78⟩glass, through which the glorious beams of Divinity will display themselves to the eye of the blessed beholders: And in the beholding whereof there will go forth a transforming virtue which will change them into the same Image; if it were so, I say, in the Gospel vision, how much more will it be so in the beatifical?