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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.
In case of undue exclusion from Church Ordinances, of such as Christ would not have excluded.
Our Lord Jesus hath foretold, that the power of the keys should fall (sometimes) into such hands, as would so diametrically pervert the use of them, as that oft-times none should be excluded, but whom Christ would have admitted; nor admitted, but such as Christ would have shut out.
They shall put You out of their Synagogues, 1i. e. Excommunicate you: You, my Disciples; you, my Friends. Hard measure! I, but here is comfort; the time is coming, wherein all the Elect shall be Congregated into one universal Assembly, never to suffer exclusion or ejectment any more to all Eternity. And then their unrighteous Excommunicators shall be righteously Excommunicated; yea they shall be Excommunicated with the highest sort of Excommunication, (higher than any Church of Christ ever used) Excommunicated for ever; delivered unto Satan, not for the destruction of the flesh only, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, 2and from the glory of his Power; (when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints): That's a dreadful Excommunication indeed; the Anathema Maranatha in the highest sense: quum Dominus venit: quia Domino quasi in manus citra veniae spem dedentur.
They shall put You out of their Synagogues, 1i. e. Excommunicate you: You, my Disciples; you, my Friends. Hard measure! I, but here is comfort; the time is coming, wherein all the Elect shall be Congregated into one universal Assembly, never to suffer exclusion or ejectment any more to all Eternity. And then their unrighteous Excommunicators shall be righteously Excommunicated; yea they shall be Excommunicated with the highest sort of Excommunication, (higher than any Church of Christ ever used) Excommunicated for ever; delivered unto Sathan, not for the destruction of the flesh only, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,