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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.
So that if it be demanded, Why Heaven must be for ever?
The first and only account of merit is the blood of Jesus Christ; the Saints were once a lost generation, 1that had sold themselves and their inheritance too, and had not wherewithal to redeem either.
The first and only account of merit is the blood of Jesus Christ; the Saints were once a lost generation, 1that had sold themselves and their inheritance too, and had not wherewithall to redeem either.
- 1Reasons why the Saints reward in glory must be for ever. 1. Christs merit.
But they had a near Kinsman (even their elder Brother by the Mothers side) to whom the right of redemption did belong, who being a mighty man of wealth, the Heir of all things, undertook to be their Goel, and (out of his own proper substance) to redeem both them and their inheritance; them to be his own inheritance, Ephes. 1.10. and Heaven to be theirs, 1 Pet. 1.4. And therefore had Heaven been but a moment short of eternity, the Redeemer had over-bought it, for he laid out the infinite treasures of his blood upon the purchase, the blood of God: 1had ⟨p. 86⟩