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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.
And that upon a twofold account.
1. In as much as Christ being a public person, all the Saints of God are risen already in Christs Resurrection, that is to say, judicially, legally, as in their Sponsor, and in their stead. In the sense of the Law, what the sponsor or surety doth, the principle debtor is said to do also: when the surety is laid in prison, the principle is laid in prison also; when the surety payeth the debt, the principle is accounted as if he had paid the debt himself; when the surety is discharged, the debtor is discharged also, because in the sense of the Law, the principle and surety are but one person.
1. In as much as Christ being a publique person, all the Saints of God are risen already in Christs Resurrection, that is to say, judicially, legally, as in their Sponsor, and in their stead. In the sense of the Law, what the sponsor or surety doth, the principle debtor is said to do also: when the surety is laid in prison, the principle is laid in prison also; when the surety payeth the debt, the principle is accounted as if he had paid the debt himself; when the surety is discharged, the debtor is discharged also, because in the sence of the Law, the principle and surety are but one person.
Thus the Lord Jesus as our Sponsor and Representative, having paid the debt, we are reputed, as if we had paid it our selves; he being discharged, we are discharged; he rising from the dead, we also rise in him, and with him: So speak the Scriptures.