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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.
Ans. Others are of opinion he had it, by immediate Revelation; but as to the time they differ.
Some conjecture, 1the Apostle had this mystery revealed to him, at what time he was rapt up to the third Heaven, and there heard unspeakable words, amongst which one was this comfortable Doctrine, that the living Saints shall not prevent the dead Saints in any glorious privilege of the Resurrection, which was an Arcanum or Mystery not formerly made known to the Church.
Some conjecture, 1the Apostle had this mysterie revealed to him, at what time he was rapt up to the third Heaven, and there heard unspeakable words, amongst which one was this comfortable Doctrine, that the living Saints shall not prevent the dead Saints in any glorious priviledg of the Resurrection, which was an Arcanum or Mysterie not formerly made known to the Church.
But this is but a conjecture which carrieth with it little probability: The Apostle telling us (in the same place) that the words he heard in that Extatical Vision were Unspeakable words, 1i. e. things which were either not lawful to be uttered, or not possible to be uttered; ineffable words: had this Mystery been that Revelation, or any part of it; the Apostle had (in reporting it to the world) either exceeded his commission, or done impossibilities!