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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.
The Apostle supposeth the Query, 1 Cor. 15.35. Some man will say, How are the dead raised? i. e. with what body do they come? A Query neither frivolous nor impertinent; and therefore himself (by the Spirit) thinks it worth the resolution.
And the resolution of it, 1is two-fold 1. In general. 2. In particular.
- 1A twofold description of the Resurrection.
1. In general, He gives us to understand, 1that the Saints shall rise, with the very same bodies they lay down with, in the Graves; it is expressed under the metaphor of Seed; God giveth it a body, &c. and to every Seed his own body; his own body, not specifically only, but numerically its own proper body, 2no ways alienated or transformed into another. And holy Job (even upon the Dung-hill) believed and Preached the very same Doctrine long before. Though after my skin, 3Worms destroy this body [i. e. after Worms have digged through my skin to consume my flesh;] yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for my self; and mine eye shall behold and not another, &c.
1. In general, He gives us to understand,