A35583:576
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.
In the Resurrection, indeed, the Saints were purely passive; as passive as when their bodies were first formed out of the dust, and had the breath of Life breathed into them.
But now, in their Ascension they shall be active and agile. Moved, indeed, they shall be, by an extrinsic power; why else are they said to be caught up into the Air? But yet not so, but that they may move themselves by an intrinsic Principle: Else, 1those supernatural affections of their re-divine bodies, might seem to be superfluous and insignificant. Suitably to this, it is storied of Elijah his Ascension (a Prophecy and figure of this universal Translation of the Saints) that although a Chariot of fire parted Him and Elisha; yet He ⟨p. 108⟩went up by a whirlwind into Heaven: He was carried, and yet he went up; so the Saints, &c.
But now, in their Ascention they shall be active and agil. Mooved, indeed, they shall be, by an extrinsick power; why else are they said to be caught up into the Air? But yet not so, but that they may move themselves by an intrinsick Principle: Else, 1those supernatural affections of their re-divine bodies, might seem to be superfluous and insignificant. Sutably to this, it is storied of Elijah his Ascention (a Prophesie and figure of this universal Translation of the Saints) that although a Charet of fire parted Him and Elisha; yet He ⟨p. 108⟩went up by a whirlwind into Heaven: He was carryed, and yet he went up; so the Saints, &c.
- 11 Cor. 15.42, 43, 44. God and Nature do nothing in Vain.