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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.
In the second place.1
- 1Second Use.
Hence we may take notice of the honour and dignity of the Saints, how meanly and basely so ever reputed, in, 1and by a reprobate world, even as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things, the scraping of their Shoes, or the common Town-Dung-cart, into which every one cast's their soil and draught: I say, though the Saints of God are thus base and contemptible in the opinion of the ignorant World, yet they have another rate and value set upon them in Heaven: 2God is not ashamed to be called their God, nor Christ ashamed to call them Brethren. Yea, he dignifies them with the stile of his Spouse, the Bride, the Lambs Wife; and all this ⟨p. 42⟩upon the account of that admirable, and inconceivable Union which is between Christ and them, that spiritual, real, operative, enriching, total, intimous, and indissoluble Union, by virtue whereof, 3they are in Christ, and Christ in them; as to their more divine part, their Soul's, one spirit with the Lord; and even as to their terrene and corruptive part, their Bodies, Members of Christ, and Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in; yea, saith my Text, their very dust is United to Christ: They sleep in Jesus.
Hence we may take notice of the honour and dignity of the Saints, how meanly and basely so ever reputed, in,