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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.
And how will the Body rejoice to see the Soul again, to whom it was espoused, which was the guide of its youth, that (in its capacity) which Christ is to the Soul, it's King, Priest, and Prophet, and by virtue of whose conjunction with it, the very body, as poor and mean as it was in its original extraction, was preferred and admitted into Fellowship, and Communion with the Son of God; and (upon that account) not forgotten all the while it slept in the land of forgetfulness, and thought not of it self: I say, Solace your selves with the prevision of that Triumph and Exultation that will fill this blessed new-Married couple! especially, when they shall receive one another so much more excellent than themselves at their last parting; that the body shall seem to be Transessentiated into a Soul, and the Soul transformed into an Angel of Light; Rejoice, O Christian Soul, to think how these two morning Stars will sing for joy, in this their new and for ever blessed Conjunction.
And how will the Body rejoyce to see the Soul again, to whom it was espoused, which was the guide of its youth, that (in its capacity) which Christ is to the Soul, it's King, Priest, and Prophet, and by vertue of whose conjunction with it, the very body, as poor and mean as it was in its original extraction, was preferr'd and admitted into Fellowship, and Communion with the Son of God; and (upon that account) not forgotten all the while it slept in the land of forgetfulness, and thought not of it self: I say, Solace your selves with the praevision of that Triumph and Exultation that will fill this blessed new-Married couple! especially, when they shall receive one another so much more excellent than themselves at their last parting; that the body shall seem to be Transessentiated into a Soul, and the Soul transformed into an Angel of Light; Rejoyce, O Christian Soul, to think how these two morning Stars will sing for joy, in this their new and for ever blessed Conjunction.
Thirdly; Thence follow them (in your Contemplations) following the Judg to the place, where the Thrones shall be erected for judgment, and there placed on Thrones, not as Spectators only, but as joint-Commissioners. Where, the Saint of a day, shall judg the Sinner of an hundred years old; ⟨p. 54⟩