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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.
For if it be in the Commission of the Angels to be Ministering Spirits, for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation, we have no reason to imagine their Commission should expire until the time, when the Saints shall be actually and safely invested into their long-expected Inheritance. And therefore, if they were the Saints Life-guard in the state of their defilement and infirmity, to bear them up in their hands, lest at any time they should dash their foot against a stone; How much more ready and active, now, in the Saints Virgin-state of Purity and Perfection, will the Angels be, to be their Convoy to conduct them (in their Ascension) going now to meet the Lamb! Sure we are, the Lord Jesus, though he be the Resurrection and the Life, yet is pleased to make much use of the Ministry of the Angels about the Resurrection of the Godly; They shall sound the first Trump, at the sounding whereof, the Dead do rise.
For if it be in the Commission of the Angels to be Ministring Spirits, for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation, we have no reason to imagine their Commission should expire until the time, when the Saints shall be actually and safely invested into their long-expected Inheritance. And therefore, if they were the Saints Life-guard in the state of their defilement and infirmity, to bear them up in their hands, lest at any time they should dash their foot against a stone; How much more ready and active, now, in the Saints Virgin-state of Purity and Perfection, will the Angels be, to be their Convoy to conduct them (in their Ascention) going now to meet the Lamb! Sure we are, the Lord Jesus, though he be the Resurrection and the Life, yet is pleased to make much use of the Ministry of the Angels about the Resurrection of the Godly; They shall sound the first Trump, at the sounding whereof, the Dead do rise.
They gather the Elect together, from the four Corners of the Earth, and sever the Wicked from them; the Tares and all things that offend, and them which work Iniquity, are by them bound up in bundles, and cast into the fire. All this is the Angels Office; not because our Lord could not with equal facility do it Himself? Why should we think the service of ⟨p. 107⟩