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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.
here, I can have pardon of all my debts, though the Law will not abate me one farthing; here be long white Robes, though I never spun a thread of them with my own fingers. To this Tribunal will I come, and here will I wait for my Justification; If I Perish, I Perish.
Yea here, Obj. may one say, is foundation for presumption to stand on; here's a Bed for Security to sleep in; here's a doctrine to send men merrily to Hell; while they break the Law, to tell them, There is one that hath fulfilled it for them; while they sin, Christ hath Righteousness enough to justify them: Surely this is a doctrine; that makes God not only the Justifier of Sinners, but the Justifier of sin too: So disputed the Free-will men of those times against the Apostles; and so the Free-will men of our times against us: but, for Answer.
Yea here, Obj. may one say, is foundation for presumption to stand on; here's a Bed for Security to sleep in; here's a doctrine to send men merrily to Hell; while they break the Law, to tell them, There is one that hath fulfilled it for them; while they sin, Christ hath Righteousness enough to justifie them: Surely this is a doctrine; that makes God not only the Justifier of Sinners, but the Justifier of sin too: So disputed the Free-will men of those times against the Apostles; and so the Free-will men of our times against us: but, for Answer.
1. Answ. The Apostle disclaims the Consequence with a vehement negation. Absit. (q. d.) God forbid any one should be so impudent to force such a scandalous Conclusion upon such immaculate Premises.