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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; Divine Compact. Grace in the Saints is under a Covenant; God the Father hath Astipulated with the Mediator for his spiritual believing seed; not only to repair the Ruins of the first Creation (his Image) in them, but to uphold and secure it from ever dissolving & decaying again totally ⟨p. 40⟩or finally partial, temporary decays and recidivations there may be; but saith the word of the Covenant, to the Redeemer (in Reference to his divine off-spring) my Spirit which is upon thee, 1and my words which I have put into thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the mouth of thy Seeds Seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
First; Divine Compact. Grace in the Saints is under a Covenant; God the Father hath Astipulated with the Mediator for his spiritual believing seed; not only to repair the Ruines of the first Creation (his Image) in them, but to uphold and secure it from ever dissolving & decaying again totally ⟨p. 40⟩or finally partial, temporary decays and recidivations there may be; but saith the word of the Covenant, to the Redeemer (in Reference to his divine off-spring) my Spirit which is upon thee, 1and my words which I have put into thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the mouth of thy Seeds Seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Adams grace was under no such Covenant, and therefore left to it self; it was exposed to the power of Temptation, and perished. This is one account of the Saints perseverance. But