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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.
The Apostle doth therefore, (I say) peremptorily and positively remove this scruple and fear out of the minds of Christians; he assures us that it is an utter mistake, it is neither so, nor so; he tells us that all Believers who had died from ⟨p. 59⟩the first Adam, downward until the coming of the second Adam, shall have as good a share (caeteris paribus) in the privileges and glory of that day, as they who stand upon their feet, and are found inter vivos, at Christ's coming.
The Apostle doth therefore, (I say) peremptorily and positively remove this scruple and fear out of the minds of Christians; he assures us that it is an utter mistake, it is neither so, nor so; he tells us that all Believers who had died from ⟨p. 59⟩the first Adam, downward until the coming of the second Adam, shall have as good a share (caeteris paribus) in the priviledges and glory of that day, as they who stand upon their feet, and are found inter vivos, at Christ's coming.
Secondly, and as soon; the living shall not prevent the dead in any one of the beatitudes and honours of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They shall neither go forth to meet this glorious Bridegroom one moment sooner than their Brethren that are in their Graves; nor shall they see him coming in his Glory, one moment sooner; nor consequently, be owned by Christ, or received by him, or taken up to him, or be placed upon Thrones with him, or receive their absolution and justification from him, or their glorification with him, one moment before their fellow-Saints that are yet in their dormitories.
And truly, this is a comfortable word, even in the negative part of it. Believers may lye down to sleep in their beds of dust, not only with the Psalmist's even-Song.