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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.
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, 1and of saving Sinners, most willingly He took the Cup, and (having given Thanks (as it were) in those words, The Cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?) He drank it; It was Bitter indeed, but he found it sweetened with three Ingredients, 1. It was but a Cup, not a Sea. 2. It was his Father that mingled it, not the Devil. 3. It was a Gift, not a Curse: as to himself; The Cup which my Father giveth me.
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, 1and of saving Sinners, most willingly He took the Cup, and (having given Thanks (as it were) in those words, The Cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?) He drank it; It was Bitter indeed, but he found it sweetned with three Ingredients, 1. It was but a Cup, not a Sea. 2. It was his Father that mingled it, not the Devil. 3. It was a Gift, not a Curse: as to himself; The Cup which my Father giveth me.
- 1Nor did Bridegroom go with more chearsulness to be Married to his Bride, then our Lord Jesus went to his Cross, Luk. 12.50. Ratione officij it was Calix Salxtis.
He drank it, I say, and drank it up every drop; leaving nothing behind for his Redeemed, but large draughts of Love and Salvation; in the Sacramental Cup of his own Institution, saying, This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood,