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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.
Eighthly; It is real in contradistinction to that contemplative Union which the Saints have with Christ in their holy Meditations. Meditation doth bring the object and the faculty together, and makes them one: And thus the Saints are (often) united to Jesus Christ in holy contemplation, whereby they let in Christ into their Souls, and their Souls into Christ, and become as it were One Spirit, or one in Spirit, with him: but neither is this all, for even common gifts and parts may produce this Conjunction, as well, as Grace; Art may thus Unite Christ, and the understanding, as well, as Faith. One may be thus United to Christ for a time, and yet be separated from Christ for ever.
Eighthly; It is real in contradistinction to that contemplative Ʋnion which the Saints have with Christ in their holy Meditations. Meditation doth bring the object and the faculty together, and makes them one: And thus the Saints are (often) united to Jesus Christ in holy contemplation, whereby they let in Christ into their Souls, and their Souls into Christ, and become as it were One Spirit, or one in Spirit, with him: but neither is this all, for even common gifts and parts may produce this Conjunction, as well, as Grace; Art may thus Unite Christ, and the understanding, as well, as Faith. One may be thus United to Christ for a time, and yet be separated from Christ for ever.
Again, Ninthly; It is a real Union in contradistinction to Reconciliatory Union. Falling out separates between person and person; Reconciliation makes them one again; Reconciliation is the Atonement of Enemies: and thus indeed, God and Sinners are Reconciled by Christ; by him we have received the Atonement; those whom sin made two, 1Christ makes one. This is a choice fruit of Christ's death, a concomitant of our Union with Christ, yet not the very Union it self, or not the whole of this Union: there is between Christ and Believers the Union of Friendship, 2 Cor. 5.18, 19. But neither is that all.