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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 then a Royal Guard of mighty Angels surround the Chariot; if not for support, yet for the greater state and solemnity of their Lords Ascension; He was carried up into Heaven, Luk. 24.51.
And then a Royal Guard of mighty Angels surround the Charet; if not for support, yet for the greater state and solemnity of their Lords Ascention; He was carried up into Heaven, Luk. 24.51.
Yet notwithstanding all this, it is said of the Lord Jesus, He went up, 1while the Disciples looked steadfastly towards Heaven: He went onward, or he went upward; as implying that his motion was not only passive, but active; he mounted up into Heaven by his own divine power, He Ascended. Behold here we have a perfect Pattern of the Saints Ascension in all the Mediums of it; they hold exact proportion with their Lord. The Father lifted up the Lord Jesus; the Lord Jesus, He lifts up his Saints. A Cloud received Him; the Saints also are caught up in the Clouds. Angels attend upon ⟨p. 109⟩their Lord in his Ascension; nor do they refuse their attendance on the Saints in their Ascension. Jesus Christ, notwithstanding, Ascended by the Power of his own glorified Person: The Saints likewise Ascend by virtue of those supernatural properties, wherewith their bodies were adorned in the Resurrection.
Yet notwithstanding all this, it is said of the Lord Jesus, He went up, 1while the Disciples looked stedfastly towards Heaven: He went onward, or he went upward; as implying that his motion was not only passive, but active; he mounted up into Heaven by his own divine power, He Ascended. Behold here we have a perfect Pattern of the Saints Ascension in all the Mediums of it; they hold exact proportion with their Lord. The Father lifted up the Lord Jesus; the Lord Jesus, He lifts up his Saints. A Cloud received Him; the Saints also are caught up in the Clouds. Angels attend upon