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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.
But then, How much stronger Consolation doth the affirtive part afford? which, although it lye in the close of the next verse, yet it being the main branch of the Apostle's account, whereby he satisfieth the doubt of the dying Servants of God, (ut suprà) we must of necessity speak of it here also with the Negative; at least so far as it refers to the Apostle's scope, reserving the consideration of what special and ⟨p. 60⟩peculiar Import the words carry in them, to their own place.
But then, How much stronger Consolation doth the affirtive part afford? which, although it lye in the close of the next verse, yet it being the main branch of the Apostle's accompt, whereby he satisfieth the doubt of the dying Servants of God, (ut suprà) we must of necessity speak of it here also with the Negative; at least so far as it referrs to the Apostle's scope, reserving the consideration of what special and ⟨p. 60⟩peculiar Import the words carry in them, to their own place.
We are therefore to take notice that the affirmative part of the Apostles satisfaction to the Saints doubt, or objection, lieth in these words, The dead in Christ shall rise first.
He doth exactly state the method of Christ's procedure at the last Judgment, 1viz. That the first business which shall be then transacted, shall be the awakening and raising all the Saints of God out of their Graves, which from Adam, until that moment, have slept in the dust: The dead in Christ shall rise first; nothing shall be done, till that be done. The very first work Christ will do at his Coming, will be, to send forth his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, first to awaken the Elect out of their sleep;