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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.
First; Here we may discover the main Foundation, 1and Reason of the Saints perseverance; surely it consists not in the nature of Grace, infused in their Regeneration; this differs not specifically from the Grace which Adam received in his first Creation; that was the Image of God, Gen. 1.26, 27. and so is this, Colos. 3.10. and therefore of it self, cannot produce any higher or more noble effects under the one Covenant, then it did under the other.
- 11 Perseverance stands not in the nature of Grace.
Secondly; 1Nor doth it consist in the liberty and rectitude of their own Wills, though Regenerate; for if Adams free will did him so little service in his perfect state, when it was entire, free, without any mixture of servility, how little security (think you) can the liberty, 2wherewith Christ maketh the will free in the new Creation, afford the Saints, wherein the state of Grace is yet imperfect? and the freedom of their wills mixed with so much bondage, that it made the holy Apostle look upon it, little different (for the present) from a captivity, 3and to cry out (to astonishment) for a Redeemer to come in and make a rescue? O Wretch that I am, who shall deliver me? &c. He found by experience, that if it were not more for a Christ, than for the freedom of his own will, that body of death, which he carried about him, would infallibly prove his total and final ruin: but [I thank God for Jesus Christ our Lord] there was his security.