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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.
And that upon a twofold account.1
- 11. R. Why Christ will come personally, sc. because the Judgment must be visible.
1. The Lord himself will Descend in his own Person, Because the judgment must be visible: and therefore the Judge must be so too: There is a dispute whether Christ shall sit on a visible Throne; and it is very probable he shall: sure we are ⟨p. 71⟩from the Scripture, that he shall appear in the Clouds of Heaven, that He may be heard and seen of all, Behold, 1he cometh with Clouds, and every eye shall see him. Clouds are visible things: and these Clouds shall not obscure him, but rather render him more conspicuous; Every eye shall see him. He shall so come with Clouds, that they shall be a Throne to exalt and lift him up to the view of all the world: therefore is the posture noted as well as the Throne: Ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power, 2and coming in the Clouds of Heaven; Clouds shall be his Throne, and sitting will be the posture; the posture of a Judge.
1. The Lord himself will Descend in his own Person, Because the judgment must be visible: and therefore the Judge must be so too: There is a dispute whether Christ shall sit on a visble Throne; and it is very probable he shall: sure we are ⟨p. 71⟩