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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.
It would not be proper here to discourse largely concerning the nature of this Union, especially, in as much, as I shall have occasion to meet with it again in the process of this discourse, sufficient to my design it is to show you how this spiritual Union that is between Christ and Believers, is one of the *Foundations whence the Resurrection of the Saints is necessarily inferred upon the Resurrection of Christ himself. For if the Head be risen, the Members cannot be long behind; witness the Word of Christ to his Disciples, (and in them to all Believers, a word more precious than the whole Creation) Because I live, ye shall live also. The Resurrection of the Saints is bound up in the Resurrection of Christ, as the effect is bound up in the cause, because I live, you shall live; because Jesus rose again, Saints shall rise again. Christ is our life; and therefore, when Christ shall appear, we shall appear with him in Glory.
It would not be proper here to discourse largely concerning the nature of this Ʋnion, especially, in as much, as I shall have occasion to meet with it again in the process of this discourse, sufficient to my design it is to shew you how this spiritual Ʋnion that is between Christ and Believers, is one of the *Foundations whence the Resurrection of the Saints is necessarily inferr'd upon the Resurrection of Christ himself. For if the Head be risen, the Members cannot be long behind; witness the Word of Christ to his Disciples, (and in them to all Believers, a word more precious than the whole Creation) Because I live, ye shall live also. The Resurrection of the Saints is bound up in the Resurrection of Christ, as the effect is bound up in the cause, because I live, you shall live; because Jesus rose again, Saints shall rise again. Christ is our life; and therefore, when Christ shall appear, we shall appear with him in Glory.
- *In Nature we see that the Winter Trees which seem to be dead, revive again in the Spring; because the Body, Arms, and Grains of the Tree are joined to the Root, where the Sap lies all the Winter, and by means of its Conjunction, it conveys vegetation to all parts of the Tree: Even so our life is hid with Christ in God; And in the day of the Resurrection, by reason of this mystical Conjunction, Divine and quickening Virtue shall stream from Christ to his Elect, and cause them to rise again, &c.