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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.
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, 1the Word of the Lord; which brings me to the second branch in this seventh word of Comfort, and that is,
And the rather, because this is not an uncertain conjecture which the Apostle laies down here, but an assertion of infallible certainty, which he had from the divine Oracle, 1the Word of the Lord; which brings me to the second branch in this seaventh word of Comfort, and that is,
- 1Second branch of this Comfort, The Authority quoted.
The Authority which the Apostle brings for this Doctrine, sc. the Word of God; This I say unto you by the word of the Lord. He quotes divine Authority for what he delivereth. It being a Doctrine of so much encouragement and satisfaction unto dying Saints; 1a Doctrine above humane capacity, and (it seemeth) not commonly understood by the Churches & Saints of God at that time; he doth not pass it in his own name, or upon his own Authority, 2but tells us from whence he had it, q.d. What I deliver now unto you, I ⟨p. 62⟩