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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.
A second Connection between Christs Resurrection, 1and the Resurrection of Believers, is a Connection of Power, and Influence. There is power in the Resurrection of Christ, for the quickening of the dead; 2This is that which the Psalmist calleth the dew of Christs Youth; from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy Youth. In the Hebrew it is more than the dew of the morning, thou shalt have the dew of thy Youth: The Resurrection of Christ is called his Youth, wherein he did as it were spring and grow forth again: and the quickening influence of his Resurrection is compared to the morning dew, to show, that what virtue there is in the dew of the morning, to cause the languishing plants of the Earth to revive and flourish, that (and much more) power and efficacy there is in the Resurrection of Jesus, to quicken and revive all his Saints, after they have lien all the night of their separated state, in the Grave: So the Prophet Isaiah interprets it in words at length, 3thy dew is as the dew of herbs; to what end? it follows; and the Earth shall cast forth her dead: The dead shall arise by virtue of this dew; the warm animating influence of Christs Resurrection. Hence it is, (as I have hinted before) that our Lord calls himself the Resurrection and the Life, namely to intimate to us, that by the same spirit of holiness, whereby he raised himself from the dead, he will also quicken their mortal bodies. This is a second Connection, which inseparably links in the Resurrection of the Saints with the Resurrection of Christ: For surely, were it not so, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ would signify no more, than the Resurrection of Lazarus, or any other of the Saints mentioned, Math. 27.52, 53. Yea, the Resurrection of Christ would not be of so great virtue, and influence, as the dry bones of the Prophet, the very touch whereof raised the dead man, 4which was cast into his Grave.
A second Connexion between Christs Resurrection, 1