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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.
Surely the thought of so near and intimate an Union with the Son of God, should make sin become an impossibility; Upon all the Adulterous solicitations of the Flesh, World, or Satan, to make holy Joseph's quick reply; How can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against my Union with Jesus Christ?
Surely the thought of so near and intimate an Union with the Son of God, should make sin become an impossibility; Upon all the Adulterous solicitations of the Flesh, World, or Satan, to make holy Joseph's quick reply; How can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against my Ʋnion with Jesus Christ?
Fourthly; 1And oh that such as have for many years together, 2sitten under the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ, and to this day are altogether strangers to this blessed Union with Christ, would now, with all seriousness and holy contention, apply themselves to know it, and to know it experimentally; that they would (with holy Paul) account all things loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, Phil. 3.8, 9, even this, that they may be found in him, to know him with interest, to know him in this mysterious and beatifical Union, Christ in them, and they in Christ; This only is the ⟨p. 43⟩saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, to be able to make out our Conjunction with him upon Scripture-evidence. Alas! this is the undoing Mistake of thousands, that are called Christians; they know somewhat of the History of Christ; they have some notions of a Christ in their heads, but this is the precipice, upon which they ruin themselves, They think to be saved by a Christ without them, they hang upon the outside of the Ark, they live upon bare notions, The Son of God took our nature upon him; died for sins; rose again,