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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.
Why-but now, the Resurrection shall make amends for all; Then this vile body shall be fashioned, 1like unto Christ his glorious body; like, i. e. of a like form and fashion to Christs body; that must needs be a ravishing beauty indeed: for, mark ye, it is not like to Christ his body, in his state of Humiliation, which yet was full of beauty, though the blind world could not see it: 2they whose eyes were opened saw and admired; we beh•ld his glory, as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth. But in the Resurrection, it is said, Our vile bodies shall be fashioned like to his Glorious body; surely that must needs excel in glory.
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- 2Isa. 53. Joh. 1.14. The divine beauty beaming it self through the very body of Christ, and adding lustre unto it. Exod. 34.30.
Behold, if such were the brightness of Moses his face, at the giving of the Law, that the Israelites were not able to bear it; They were afraid (saith the Text) to come nigh him: If St. Stephens Countenance did shine as the face of an Angel, when he stood holding up his hand at the bar of his Unrighteous Judges, in the posture of a Malefactor! what think we is the lustre and brightness which shines forth from the glorified body of the Lord Jesus, 1