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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.
Oh how welcome will the Saints be to the Lord Jesus at that day? 1when he shall look upon them under a three-fold Relation! sc.
- 1The Saints under a three-fold Relation.
1. As the Father's Election: 1To see the whole number of names which were given unto him by the Father, from all Eternity, as the fruit and reward of his Passion, now (at the last) all gathered together, and given into his actual possession, as an inheritance for ever.
- 1First. The Fathers Election. Joh 10.6. Eph: 1.18.
2. To look upon them as the Purchase of his own Blood. 1If it was a satisfaction to the Lord Jesus, when behold he was in the throws and agonies of his Travel with them upon the Cross, to see his Seed, 2when they were but in the swaddling Clothes of their imperfect Regeneration, according to their successive generations (wherein they were to be brought into the Church); Oh what infinite satisfaction will it now be to the Lord Jesus, to see the Travel of his Soul in their perfect and consummate estate, all the mixtures of Corruption and Infirmity now deleted, and they come to a perfect man, to the measure of the Stature of the fullness of Christ? to see them all brought in; not a Soul wanting of all those whose names he bare upon his breast, while he hung upon the Cross? that not one drop of Blood, not one Prayer, not a Sigh or Groan, or Tear, that ever he spent for them, (in the days of his Flesh)