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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.
Secondly; If so; I would fain be satisfied, what succeeds in the room of the Fac hoc, to supply the office of a justifying Righteousness? what can?
First; Not, surely, Inherent Righteousness, that being quidimperfectum, and an imperfect Cause can never produce a perfect Effect; which some observing, have had no other [Greek or Hebrew] left them, 1but, in down right language, to affirm Habitual Righteousness to be perfect; whom we shall leave to the confutation of fire in the last day.
First; Not, surely, Inherent Righteousness, that being quidimperfectum, and an imperfect Cause can never produce a perfect Effect; which some observing, have had no other 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 left them, 1but, in down right language, to affirm Habitual Righteousness to be perfect; whom we shall leave to the confutation of fire in the last day.
- 1Bell. de justif. li. 2. ca. 7. S 3.
Secondly; 1Nor can it be Adoption. The terminus à quo in Adoption is a state of alienation from God. The verminus à quo in Justification is a [guilty Malefactor] as to Absolution; and of [want of Righteousness] as to the Condition of the Covenant.