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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.
Secondly; Nor is it a Relative Union only; as Father and Child, Master and Servant are united: such an Union there is between Christ and Believers; but that is not all.
Secondly; Nor is it a Relative Ʋnion only; as Father and Child, Master and Servant are united: such an Union there is between Christ and Believers; but that is not all.
Thirdly; Neither is it a legal Union only. Christ and the Believer are not one only, as the Debtor and the Surety are one in Law, in a forinsecal sense, i.e. in the interpretation and judgment of the Court. In this sense they are one indeed, viz. in the judgment of God, as a Judge, (as I have formerly showed) but not only so.
Thirdly; Neither is it a legal Ʋnion only. Christ and the Believer are not one only, as the Debtor and the Surety are one in Law, in a forinsecal sence, i.e. in the interpretation and judgment of the Court. In this sence they are one indeed, viz. in the judgment of God, as a Judge, (as I have formerly shewed) but not only so.
Fourthly; Nor is it an Union only of assent in point of doctrine and judgment, though so much it is, for saith the Apostle in the name of all Believers. We have the mind of Christ. 1The Believer, (so far as he is a Believer) is of the same mind, judgment, and opinion with Jesus Christ in all things. And this truly gives them a kind of oneness; whence a firm and steadfast continuance in the Faith, i.e. in the doctrine of Jesus Christ, 2is called an in being in Christ,