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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.
1. His Purchase; would Christ buy a people at so dear a rate, and then go away and come no more at them? Nay.
2. Witness also his promise; And if I go, 1I will come again; He will, especially considering the design of his leaving them for a time, it was but to go and prepare a place for them, and he hath done it; the place is prepared; Mansions in his Fathers house are made ready for them, ver. 2. Why now Christ being gone to this very end, and all things prepared for their entertainment; if he should not come again, he should certainly fail, not his promise only, but his project too; this cannot be: He that never yet failed his own promise, 2nor his peoples expectations, will not now do it; No, I will come and receive you. He that went from them, only to prepare the place for them, will certainly come again to receive them into that place now it is prepared. He loves them so well, that he will not; he cannot be without their company: I will come and receive you, that where I am, there you may be also. 3Faithful is he that hath promised who also will do it.
2. Witness also his promise; And if I go, 1I will come again; He will, especially considering the design of his leaving them for a time, it was but to go and prepare a place for them, and he hath done it; the place is prepared; Mansions in his Fathers house are made ready for them, ver. 2. Why now Christ being gon to this very end, and all things prepared for their entertainment; if he should not come again, he should certainly fail, not his promise only, but his project too; this cannot be: He that never yet failed his own promise, 2