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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.
First, partly in as much as by this Union, Christ, 1and the Believer are made one Spirit; He that is joined to the Lord, ⟨p. 24⟩is one Spirit: not only, one Spiritually, but one Spirit: not as exclusive to the body it self, 2for we are Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his Bones; but expressing to us the top and perfection of this Union. He, that is joined to an Harlot; is one flesh, in an impure, and carnal sense. Man and Wife, 3though their conjunction be more honourable, yet are but one flesh also, in a conjugal sense: For two, saith he, shall be one flesh; I, but he that is joined to the Lord, is one Spirit; an Union infinitely more honourable, than that in Marriage; the Believer is joined to Christ, into one, and the same Spirit; he is animated, and acted by one and the same Spirit with Christ, though in a different degree and measure, for God gave not the Spirit by measure unto him. 4Christ as Mediator (for in that capacity Believers are United unto him, and not merely as second person) received the Spirit without measure*.
First, partly in as much as by this Union, Christ, 1and the Believer are made one Spirit; He that is joyned to the Lord, ⟨p. 24⟩is one Spirit: not onely, one Spiritually, but one Spirit: not as exclusive to the body it self, 2for we are Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his Bones; but expressing to us the top and perfection of this Union. He, that is joyned to an Harlot; is one flesh, in an impure, and carnal sense. Man and Wife,