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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. The holy Apostle divides all the Elect of God into two ranks, sc.
1. Such as are fallen asleep from the fall of the first Adam to the coming of the second, or 2. Such as should survive and remain unto that day; not making himself of the number of either the one or of the other, but one of the whole number of Gods Elect, some of whom should sleep, some should live till Christ's last coming: and when he saith, we that are alive and remain, it signifies no more, but this in general, such of us as are then alive, shall not prevent such of us as are then asleep; this is all he intends in this expression.
Beza and others spy out a mystery in this manner of speech; Doct. as if hereby the Apostle would hint unto us the uncertainty of Christ's Coming, 1that (for ought that was revealed of that day) Christ might come while some of that generation were superstites, living upon the face of the earth.
- 1Vult omnes suspensos tenere, ne sibi tempus aliquod promittant.Ʋult omnes suspensos tenere, ne sibi tempus aliquod promittant.