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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.
2. It is of God the Fathers efficiency: the Father tieth this Marriage knot between his Son and his Spouse; for, we are his Workmanship, Created in Christ Jesus, &c. The new Creation, it is God's work, and it is founded on Christ, or in Christ, created in Christ Jesus, &c.
2. It is of God the Fathers efficiency: the Father tyeth this Marriage knot between his Son and his Spouse; for, we are his Workmanship, Created in Christ Jesus, &c. The new Creation, it is God's work, and it is founded on Christ, or in Christ, created in Christ Jesus, &c.
3. It is of Gods support. As in the first Creation, when God had finished the world, he took not his hand off; but upholds it still by the word of his power, Heb. 1.3. So in this second and new Creation; when he hath wrought it, he takes not off his hand; if he should, it would quickly collapse into its first nothing. How comes it then to pass it doth not? why saith the Apostle, 1 Pet. 1.5. you are kept by the power of God, through Faith to Salvation: Faith keeps the Believer in this Union; but the power of God keeps Faith. Why now, if after all this, God should at any time suspend the influence of this power; or, by any malice, or fraud of men, or Devils, suffer this Union to miscarry, he should fail and cross his own project, he should desert his own design; this cannot be.
Here is the Foundation then, upon which the Apostle erecteth this Triumph: God who only can dissolve this Union will not; the Creature, which only would dissolve this Union, cannot; so it stands on a surer bottom then Heaven and Earth, our life is hid with Christ in God. The Believer is in Christ, as Christ is in God, hence the unseparableness of this Union: