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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.
Again; The Doctrine of Christ his Personal Appearance at the last day affords no less Consolation in reference to the Saints departed; and to this very end, doth the Holy ⟨p. 76⟩Ghost mention it in this place, The Lord himself shall descend from Heaven. 1I told you the words have a Relative consideration in them: as they do imply an account why the Saints which are alive at the coming of Christ, shall not prevent them which are asleep: why? (it immediately follows): For the Lord himself shall descend. The Saints of God need not doubt of this, either in reference to themselves; or to their Relations, whom they have sent before them to the Grave; The Lord that bought them, will see to Their Resurrection in the first place: It was the will of him that sent him, that of all which he hath given him, 2he might lose nothing, but that he should raise it up again in the last day. And Jesus Christ is so punctual to his trust, that He will not delegate it to any of the Angels or Seraphims; but will come in Person to accomplish that charge; that so not any one of his little ones may possibly be forgotten, *nothing may be lost: neither Person nor Member, nor Dust: but that Christ may present it entirely to his Father at his coming, in the same language he spake when he went out of the world;
Again; The Doctrine of Christ his Personal Appearance at the last day affords no less Consolation in reference to the Saints departed; and to this very end, doth the Holy ⟨p. 76⟩Ghost mention it in this place, The Lord himself shall descend from Heaven. 1I told you the words have a Relative consideration in them: as they do imply an account why the Saints which are alive at the coming of Christ, shall not prevent them which are asleep: why? (it immediatly follows): For the Lord himself shall descend. The Saints of God need not doubt of this, either in reference to themselves; or to their Relations, whom they have sent before them to the Grave; The Lord that bought them, will see to Their Resurrection in the first place: It was the will of him that sent him, that of all which he hath given him,