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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.
Fifthly; 1The omnipotence of God doth gratify his mercy in this design, for while mercy poureth in this strong liquor of the Lords joy immeasurably into the vessels of glory, omnipotence doth support and strengthen those vessels that they split not with their own fullness; it were not else imaginable how created vessels should hold uncreated glory and if the vessel should run out, or fail, the I quor would be lost.
Fifthly; 1The omnipotence of God doth gratifie his mercy in this design, for while mercy poureth in this strong liquor of the Lords joy immeasurably into the vessels of glory, omnipotence doth support and strengthen those vessels that they split not with their own fulness; it were not else imaginable how created vessels should hold uncreated glory and if the vess•l should run out, or fail, the I quor would be lost.
- 15. Attribute, Omnipotence.
Sixthly, 1God is eternal, and therefore Heaven must be eternal also. In Heaven there are no second causes, which ⟨p. 93⟩are obnoxious to contingency or alteration? all causes there are resolved into the first being and sovereign cause, where they remain sixth and immutable, as that immense Being himself, and because he liveth eternally, they shall so live also. The eternity of Gods being layeth the foundation of the eternity of the Saints glory.
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