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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 this Ascension, according to the Analogy of Scripture, we may conceive, shall be effected by a Three-fold medium, 1Scil. 1. The Power of Christ. 2. The Ministry of the Angels, 3. The Spirituality of the Saints own bodies.
And this Ascention, according to the Analogy of Scripture, we may conceive, shall be effected by a Three-fold medium, 1Scil. 1. The Power of Christ. 2. The Ministry of the Angels, 3. The Spirituality of the Saints own bodies.
- 11. Medium. The power of Christ.
First, the Ascension of the Saints in the Clouds shall be effected by the Power of Christ.
First, the Ascention of the Saints in the Clouds shall be effected by the Power of Christ.
By the same power whereby he raised them out of their Graves, will he lift them up unto Himself; yea this taking them up, is a branch of the Resurrection; it is continuata Resurrectio, as Divines say, that Providence, is, continuata Creatio, a Progressive Creation: So I may call this Rapture of the Saints into the Air, It is nothing else but a Progressive Resurrection; ⟨p. 105⟩the continuation and perfection of the Resurrection; the proper work (also) of Him, who is the Resurrection and the Life; It is the second part of the Resurrection, without which the first would differ little from the state of the Dead. In vain should the Saints be raised out of the dust, if being raised, Christ should leave them at a distance from Him: and the Resurrection of the Saints themselves would look too like the Resurrection of the Wicked, a Punishment rather than a Blss; Separation from Christ being half, (yea, the worst half) of Hell: though even there the damned have a kind of Life. Surely, the Children of the Resurrection might have too real occasion to weep Absaloms dissembling complaint to his abused Father; Why am I come from Geshur, if I may not see the Kings face? Why are we brought up out of the Grave, if we may not enjoy the Lamb's presence?