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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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Now this act is usually called immediate, i. e. without the mediation of signs and evidences (as in the former Office) not but that there are signs and evidences in the person testified, but that the Spirit makes no use of them in the act of testification; there are gracious qualifications in the soul, sufficient to distinguish and justify it from all the false witness of the lying Spirit (upon all seasonable occasions) but the Spirit of God doth not refer to any of these qualifications in this act, but immediately darts in light and comfort, which fill the soul with joy unspeakable and full of glory: This act of the Spirit is sometimes called in Scripture, 1. 1The Seal of the Spirit, Ephes. 1.13. The office of a Seal being like that of an Oath, [Greek or Hebrew], Heb. 6.16. an end of all strife, to put the matter beyond doubt or disputation: So a Believer sealed is set beyond all fear or danger, and God, as it were, leaves himself no possibility of receding or going back from his word and promise, Heb. 6.18. 2. 2This act is called an earnest, 2 Cor. 5.5. Who also hath given us the earnest of his Spirit: Now the office of an earnest is not only to assure, but to give possession; an earnest is part of the purchase or bargain: so is this act of the Spirit an act, whereby the soul is not only assured of, but put into possession of the heavenly inheritance, it is as it were part of it, the joy of the Lord enters into the soul, before the soul enters into the joy of the Lord, assurance is nothing else but antidated glory, heaven on this side heaven.
Now this act is usually called immediate, i. e. without the mediation of signs and evidences (as in the former Office) not but that there are signs and evidences in the person testified, but that the Spirit makes no use of them in the act of testification; there are gracious qualifications in the soul, sufficient to distinguish and justifie it from all the false witness of the lying Spirit (upon all seasonable occasions) but the Spirit of God doth not refer to any of these qualifications in this act, but immediately darts in light and comfort, which fill the soul wich joy unspeakable and full of glory: This act of the Spirit is sometimes called in Scripture, 1.