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…

This is the first Receiving of them unto Himself, ¹his drawing of them up unto Him, according to his own phrase in the days of his flesh; And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me: (All men i. e. All my Redeemed ones,) which promise, although the Spirit expounds it upon his being lifted up upon the Cross, verse 33. This he spake, signifying what death he should dye: Yet we may (not without warrant) extend it also to his glorious Exaltation in the great Day of his Judging the World: this being both the design and reward of his Passion; to the intent, that whom he drew to Himself, by the merit of his Cross, he might also actually draw unto Himself by the power of his Resurrection ⟨p. 106⟩and Ascension. I will draw all men unto me; or, I will attract unto me; As the Lodestone draweth the metal unto it self by its magnetic virtue; or as the Sun draweth up the vapours of the Earth by its attractive beams: so will the Lord Jesus Christ that Sun of Righteousness, when his glory shall arise upon the world, with healing under his wings; draw all his Saints unto Himself, by the sovereign attractive influence of that mysterious Union between Himself and his Members.

This is the first Receiving of them unto Himself, ¹his drawing of them up unto Him, according to his own phrase in the days of his flesh; And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me: (All men i. e. All my Redeemed ones,) which promise, although the Spirit expounds it upon his being lifted up upon the Cross, verse 33. This he spake, signifying what death he should dye: Yet we may (not without warrant) extend it also to his glorious Exaltation in the great Day of his Judging the World: this being both the design and reward of his Passion; to the intent, that whom he drew to Himself, by the merit of his Cross, he might also actually draw unto Himself by the power of his Resurrection ⟨p. 106⟩and Ascention. I will draw all men unto me; or, I will attract unto me; As the Loadstone draweth the mettal unto it self by its magnetick vertue; or as the Sun draweth up the vapours of the Earth by its attractive beams: so will the Lord Jesus Christ that Sun of Righteousness, when his glory shall arise upon the world, with healing under his wings; draw all his Saints unto Himself, by the soveraign attractive influence of that mysterious Union between Himself and his Members.