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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.
The Resurrection and Ascension in the future state of happiness, have their spring and rise in the present state of holiness; they are link in, and joined one to another, in the eternal counsel and purpose of God; with the very same Connection wherewith Birth and Conception are linked together; Harvest and Seed-time. So that look what impossibility there is in nature, that there should be a Birth, where was no Conception; or an Harvest, where no Semination; the same impossibility there is, that such a person should share in the Resurrection of Glory, that is a stranger to the Resurrection of Grace, the new Birth; or that a Man or Woman should Ascend to meet Jesus Christ in the Clouds, who in the state of Regeneration, labours not often to meet Christ in the Mount of holy Meditation.
The Resurrection and Ascention in the future state of happiness, have their spring and rise in the present state of holiness; they are linke in, and joyned one to another, in the eternal counsel and purpose of God; with the very same Connexion wherewith Birth and Conception are lincked together; Harvest and Seed-time. So that look what impossibility there is in nature, that there should be a Birth, where was no Conception; or an Harvest, where no Semination; the same impossibility there is, that such a person should share in the Resurrection of Glory, that is a stranger to the Resurrection of Grace, the new Birth; or that a Man or Woman should Ascend to meet Jesus Christ in the Clouds, who in the state of Regeneration, labours not often to meet Christ in the Mount of holy Meditation.
If therefore ye be risen with Christ, 1seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at Gods right hand; set your affections on things above.