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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.
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
Secondly; 1The next and immediate Foundation of it, is, this blessed Union whereof we are now speaking; by virtue whereof the true Believer is so made one with Christ, as Christ is one with his Father, ut supr.—As we are one, as, that is (as it hath been expounded) spiritually, really, operatively, enrichingly, intimously, indissolubly;—in a word infallibly, and availably to all saving intents and purposes. Here is the ground and foundation of the Saints perseverance; 2They are not only sixth Stars in Christs right hand (if no more, it would be hard pulling them thence.) But their lives are bound up in the same bundle with Christs own life; 3our life is hid with Christ in God. Christ and his Saints have, as it were, but one life between them, and that life is Christs; whence Christ himself makes the inference; because I live, 4you shall live also. Upon such an instance, it may be questioned, and (possibly) without breach of charity, whether they who deny the infallible perseverance of the Saints, did ever truly study or believe the notion and nature of the happy and glorious Union which is betwixt Christ and them*.
Secondly; 1The next and immediate Foundation of it, is, this blessed Ʋnion whereof we are now speaking; by vertue whereof the true Believer is so made one with Christ, as Christ is one with his Father, ut supr.—As we are one, as, that is (as it hath been expounded) spiritually, really, operatively, enrichingly, intimously, indissolubly;—in a word infallibly, and availeably to all saving intents and purposes. Here is the ground and foundation of the Saints perseverance;