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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.
It were too little to say, Use. This may much alleviate the bitterness of death, our own, or our godly Relations; surely it may greatly augment our joy; They and we shall be so far from being losers, by laying down our earthly Tabernacles in the dust, (before we see Christ coming in his Glory,) that it shall be our advantage. If there be any privilege, any joy, any glory, any triumph at that day, it shall be theirs who sleep in Jesus; and theirs, as soon as their surviving-Brethren's. The first dawnings of the Sun of Righteousness (coming in his Majesty) shall shine upon their faces; the first-fruits of that Jubilee, shall be reserved for a recompense of their long sleep in the Grave, they shall begin the health in this cup of Salvation; the primacy of all that blessed solemnity, belongs to the departed Saints. The dead in Christ shall rise first.
It were too little to say, Use. This may much alleviate the bieterness of death, our own, or our godly Relations; surely it may greatly augment our joy; They and we shall be so far from being losers, by laying down our earthly Tabernacles in the dust, (before we see Christ coming in his Glory,) that it shall be our advantage. If there be any priviledg, any joy, any glory, any triumph at that day, it shall be theirs who sleep in Jesus; and theirs, as soon as their surviving-Brethrens. The first dawnings of the Sun of Righteousness (coming in his Majesty) shall shine upon their faces; the first-fruits of that Jubilee, shall be reserved for a recompence of their long sleep in the Grave, they shall begin the health in this cup of Salvation; the primacy of all that blessed solemnity, belongs to the departed Saints. The dead in Christ shall rise first.
Oh Christians, Comfort one another with this word.
And the rather, because this is not an uncertain conjecture which the Apostle lays down here, but an assertion of infallible certainty, which he had from the divine Oracle,