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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.
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: 1There is no more pulling the Believer out of the bosom of Christ, then there is of Christ out of the bosom of his Father.
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: 1There is no more pulling the Believer out of the bosome of Christ, then there is of Christ out of the bosome of his Father.
And therefore once more, upon this account it is, that our Lord compareth this blessed Union to that substantial Union between the Father and the Son, that they may be one, as we are one, namely to express, as the reality and inwardness, so also, the indeficiency of this spiritual Union, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee. As, i.e. as fixedly, as inseparably, as immutably.
And therefore once more, upon this account it is, that our Lord compareth this blessed Ʋnion to that substantial Ʋnion between the Father and the Son, that they may be one, as we are one, namely to express, as the reality and inwardness, so also, the indeficiency of this spiritual Ʋnion, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee. As, i.e. as fixedly, as inseparably, as immutably.