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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.
1. Upon his Wisdom; as if he had made a Law, either so Strict as could not have been kept, or so inconsiderable, that, being broken, it was not worth the Vindication; Or 2. Upon his All-sufficiency; as if he wanted Power to have Chastised the breach of his Holy and Just, and Good Law, with Condign punishment; Or 3. Above all, His Veracity and Justice; who having presentenced the breach of his Law with Death, ⟨p. 143⟩(Death surely, answerable to the nature of his Righteous and Eternal Law), The Law being now notoriously Violated; He should account it a a matter of indifferency, whether He executed the threatened Sentence, yea or no, &c.
1. Upon his Wisdom; as if he had made a Law, either so Strict as could not have been kept, or so inconsiderable, that, being broken, it was not worth the Vindication; Or 2. Upon his All-sufficiency; as if he wanted Power to have Chastised the breach of his Holy and Just, and Good Law, with Condign punishment; Or 3. Above all, His Veracity and Justice; who having presentenced the breach of his Law with Death, ⟨p. 143⟩(Death surely, answerable to the nature of his Righteous and Eternal Law), The Law being now notoriously Violated; He should account it a a matter of indifferency, whether He executed the threatned Sentence, yea or no, &c.
Oh how had this been to have prostituted the honour of His Government, to be trampled under foot by bold and presumptuous Sinners?
Nay, but God Pardoning Sin, upon no inferior account, than the Propitiatory Sacrifice, which his own Blessed Son, made to Divine Justice, by his Death; hath born Witness to his High and Glorious Attributes, Wisdom, Power, and Justice, &c.