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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.
To these Scriptures, and the like, it is most probably conjectured our Apostle doth refer, when he doth here quote the Authority of our Lord for the Doctrine here delivered; For although it doth not run verbatim, word for word with any of the recited Texts; yet these things are evident,
First; That in these Scriptures our Blessed Saviour doth positively and expressly assert the doctrine of the Resurrection at the last day; The dead must rise. Secondly; That the main care which Christ will take at his coming, will be, To gather unto himself all his Elect which have been upon the earth, from the Creation, until that blessed hour; 1He shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather his Elect, &c. not one of them shall be wanting. Thirdly; Christ comprehends all these his Elect, whether quick or dead, under one and the same notion; namely, the dead, and those that are in the Graves; not the least mention made, or notice taken, of them that shall survive and be found alive at his coming, whence two things are clearly deducible, First; That the Resurrection, which the Saints that sleep in Jesus, shall be made partakers of, shall put them into as full a capacity of the glory of Christs coming, as if they had remained alive in the body until that blessed hour. ⟨p. 65⟩Yea, Secondly; That the Saints then surviving, can upon no other account become capable of that glory, than as they fall under the notion of the dead. Christ takes notice (in the prediction of his coming) of no other but the dead, for whom that glory is reserved. Whence
First; That in these Scriptures our Blessed Saviour doth positively and expresly assert the doctrine of the Resurrection at the last day; The dead must rise. Secondly; That the main care which Christ will take at his coming, will be, To gather unto himself all his Elect which have been upon the earth, from the Creation, until that blessed hour;