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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.
Once more: Hath the Father appointed him a Kingdom? so doth he appoint unto them a Kingdom, Luk. 22.29. Hath the Father assigned him a Throne? so doth Christ assign unto his Saints a Throne also. To him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me, 1in my Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne.
Once more: Hath the Father appointed him a Kingdom? so doth he appoint unto them a Kingdom, Luk. 22.29. Hath the Father assigned him a Throne? so doth Christ assigne unto his Saints a Throne also. To him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me, 1in my Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne.
My Brethren! what a Soul-enriching, beatifical Union is this! There be Unions in nature, which convey nothing, communicate nothing, but empty, and insignificant titles, which make the person admitted into them, not a whit the richer, the better, not a jot the more noble or happy: but this Union (as that divine essential Union between the Father, and the Son doth invest Christ into all divine properties and prerogatives with the Father, so this between Christ and the Believer) invests the Believer into the whole Christ, and all his riches, and all his glory, in so much as the Spouse gives in the whole account in this vast and invaluable sum. 1My Beloved is mine, and I am his; he is mine; the whole Christ is mine in his natures, offices, excellencies, prerogatives, and inheritance; In all he is, and in all he hath, it is all mine, for my good, and for my glory: This is the voice of her Faith, and then I am his, this is the voice of her love, I am his, in all I am, in all I have, in all I can make by my interest in the world; and if it were a thousand times more, he should have it all, and all too little for him, who hath loved me, and washed one in his own