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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 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⟩speak not of my self, sed ex ore Domini, from the mouth of him that is the truth it self, the mouth of Jesus Christ; This we say unto you in the word of the Lord.
- 1Praefatur, nihil se preferre vel suum, vel humanum, Calv.
- 2When he speaks as one that hath obtained mercy to be faithful, then it is 1 Cor. 7.12. I speak, not the Lord, i.e. not by express dictate of the Spirit, but by way of Faith, Christivice, as agreeable to the word: but when he speaks as an Apostle, insallibly inspired, then it is, not I, but the Lord: and so it is here.When he speaks as one that hath obtained mercy to be saithful, then it is 1 Cor. 7.12. I speak, not the Lord, i.e. not by express dictate of the Spirit, but by way of Faith, Christivice, as agreeable to the word: but when he speaks as an Apostle, insallibly inspired, then it is, not I, but the Lord: and so it is here.
Qu. But where or when had the Apostle this Doctrine from Jesus Christ?