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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.
Secondly; We gather hence, that Scripture-Inference, Use. 2 is Scripture; that is to say, That which may be inferred from Scripture, by natural and necessary consequence, is to be received as the Scripture it self. The word of God rightly interpreted, is the word of God. Thus our Lord himself, 1proves the Resurrection out of the old Testament, by inference and deduction from the words which God spake to Moses [I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,] he thence infers, [God being not the God of the dead, but of the living.] that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are alive in their better part, sc. their Souls, and shall live again in their inferior part, sc. their bodies.
Secondly; We gather hence, that Scripture-Inference, Ʋse. 2 is Scripture; that is to say, That which may be inferr'd from Scripture, by natural and necessary consequence, is to be received as the Scripture it self. The word of God rightly interpreted, is the word of God. Thus our Lord himself, 1proves the Resurrection out of the old Testament, by inference and deduition from the words which God spake to Moses [I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,] he thence inferrs, [God being not the God of the dead, but of the living.] that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are alive in their better part, sc. their Souls, and shall live again in their inferiour part, sc. their bodies.
So the holy Apostle here inferreth this comfortable truth, that the dead Saints shall lose nothing by their not being found alive at Christs coming; from Christ's own doctrine of the Resurrection in general: And doubts not to honour it with this Title,