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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.
Behold this is the first Reason.
A second account may be in respect of the elect themselves. 1The Saints have immortal souls, souls that have an ever stamped upon them; an ever, a part post, an enduring ever, though not (a part ante) a beginning ever, or rather an ever without beginning; of such an ever the Saints were uncapable: God himself (with holy reverence be it spoken) could not have bestowed such an ever upon the Creatures, for then he must have made them so many Gods; and this God could not do, and that because he is omnipotent; there is but one supreme, but one omnipotent; but now an ever, a part post, an enduring ever, God by divine Covenant conferred upon their souls, and will invest their bodies also with at the Resurrection, that so eternal Beings might be capable of eternal Rewards, the wicked of torments, the godly of bliss, both eternal; If there were not this ever upon the beatitudes, as well as upon the persons of the Saints, they would be extremely losers by it, and outlive their own happiness.
A second account may be in respect of the elect themselves. 1The Saints have immortal souls, souls that have an ever stampt upon them; an ever, a parte post, an enduring ever, though not (a parte ante) a beginning ever, or rather an ever without beginning; of such an ever the Saints were uncapable: God himself (with holy reverence be it spoken) could not have bestowed such an ever upon the Creatures, for then he must have made them so many Gods; and this God could not do, and that because he is omnipotent; there is but one supreme, but one omnipotent; but now an ever, a parte post, an enduring ever, God by divine Covenant conferr'd upon their souls, and will invest their bodies also with at the Resurrection, that so eternal Beings might be capable of eternal Rewards, the wicked of torments, the godly of bliss, both eternal; If there were not this ever upon the beatitudes, as well as upon the persons of the Saints, they would be extreamly losers by it, and outlive their own happiness.