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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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In this case therefore I know and believe there is enough in the former Office of the Spirit, to carry a believer to heaven, yet this second Office can be no useless redundancy, or over plus; a Believer will need all the assurance that is to be had, and therefore if God be so bountiful to give both, let a Believer pray and wait for the promise of the Spirit in both these Offices, mediate, and immediate; if he speed, it will be a labour well bestowed, if he speed not, it will be a labour well lost.
I have done with this third Help or Means to attain assurance, I come to the fourth, and shall more briefly dispatch them that remain.
A fourth Help to get assurance is this, 1Make much of the Spirit; surely it concerns us highly to be very tender of the Spirit, for if both kinds of assurance be the fruit of the Spirit, we had need to hear (as it were) founding in our ears, Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, 2whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption; whereby ye are sealed, i. e. whose office it is to seal up believers. Grieve him not.
- 14. Help. Be very tender of the Spirit.
- 2Ephes, 4.30.