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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.
It was an Argument of the truth of Christ His humane Nature, that he naturally dreaded a Dissolution. 1He owed it to Himself as a Creature to desire the Conservation of his Being; and He could not become unnatural to himself, 2For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, &c.
- 1Omne appetite Conservationem sui.Omne appetit Conservationem sui.
- 2Phil. 2.8.
But being a Son, he learned submission; and became obedient to the death, even the death of the Cross, that Shameful, Cruel, Cursed death of the Cross; The suffering whereof he owed to that solemn Astipulation which from everlasting passed between his Father and Himself; 1the third Person in the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Ghost being Witness.
- 11 Joh. 5.8. As to Christs humane Nature, the Cup was Calix ameritudinis.
And therefore, though the Cup was the bitterest Cup that ever was given man to drink, as wherein there was not Death only, but Wrath, and Curse; yet seeing there was no other way lest of satisfying the Justice of his Father,