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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.
Third Property.
Thirdly; This Union is an operative Union. 1Christ is in the Believer, as the soul is in the body a principle of life and operation. I Live saith the Apostle; but as if he had said too much, he recalls what he had said, yet not I; but, Christ liveth in me; q. d. It is not so much I that live, as Christ in me. Christ is my life, it is he that animates me, he, that acts me, it is he, that doth all his work in me, and my works for me; It is he that believes in me, that desireth in me, (whatsoever is good, and spiritual) it is he that repents in me, and loveth in me, and prayeth in me. My meaning is not to gratify the Antinomians; for though the Acts be efficiently from Christ, yet formally they are wholly ours; Christ is the next Efficient Cause, but not the next Formal Cause: though he be the immediate cause in respect of the virtue and power by which we act; yet he is only a mediate Cause in respect of the Order of acting; and therefore properly the act only denominates us, and not him. Though the act be mine, the strength is his; I can do all things through him that strengtheneth ⟨p. 30⟩me; I am but the instrument only, which his hand manageth; it is his Finger that toucheth me, his skill that makes the Music. It is such an Union as from whence the Believer, by Faith draws life, and virtue from Jesus Christ to all spiritual and saving intents, and purposes.
Thirdly; This Ʋnion is an operative Ʋnion. 1