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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
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2. The Spirit clears the evidence by the Candle of the Lord, enabling the Soul to read it evidently written in the heart by his own finger: the Spirit enlightens the understanding to see that these graces in the Soul are real and genuine. The believer dan say. I believe. I through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, 1 Cor. 9. ult. I love the brethren, and the more of God I see in them, the more my heart cleaves to them. I have the Son, as a fountain of light and life dwelling in me. I am in some measure made meet (I hope) to be partaker of the inheritance, &c.
2. The Spirit clears the evidence by the Candle of the Lord, enabling the Soul to read it evidently written in the heart by his own finger: the Spirit enlightens the understanding to see that these graces in the Soul are real and genuine. The believer dan say. I believe. I through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, 1 Cor. 9. ult. I love the brethren, and the more of God I see in them, the more my heart cleaves to them. I have the Son, as a fountain of light and life dwelling in me. I am in some measure made meet (I hope) to be partaker of the inheritance, &c.
Now from the premises, the Spirit enables the believer comfortably to issue this blessed conclusion, Therefore I shall be saved; Therefore I am a partaker of the inheritance of the Saints in light.
Behold! this is the first office of the Spirit! Oh pray for it Christians; that in judging of your evidences, neither on one hand you may be deceived with shadows instead of substances,