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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.
Quest. Whether or no in this blessed Vision the Saints shall see one another with a distinguishing sight, i. e. see them so as to know them under such relations and respects as once they stood in one to another in this imperfect state? Whether Abraham shall know Isaac as (once) his son, and Isaac know Abraham as (sometime) his father? Whether the Husband shall know his Wife, and the Wife her Husband, as (once) such that have drawn together in the same conjugal yoke? Whether Kindred shall know their gracious Kindred, and friend his friend? Whether the godly Minister shall know his gracious People that were of his particular flock, and the flock know him as once standing in that ministerial relation to them? Et sic in caet.
Quest. Whether or no in this blessed Vision the Saints shall see one another with a distinguishing sight, i. e. see them so as to know them under such relations and respects as once they stood in one to another in this imperfect state? Whether Abraham shall know Isaak as (once) his son, and Isaak know Abraham as (sometime) his father? Whether the Husband shall know his Wife, and the Wife her Husband, as (once) such that have drawn together in the same conjugal yoke? Whether Kinred shall know their gracious Kinred, and friend his friend? Whether the godly Minister shall know his gracious People that were of his particular flock, and the flock know him as once standing in that ministerial relation to them? Et sic in caet.
This, I say, is a Question which seems neither difficult nor fruitless to be resolved. Probability (without doubt) falls upon the Affirmative, and that whether we consult Reason or Scripture.
Reason saith, It is very likely we shall know them, Reason. whether by the secret impressions of former converse one with another, or by revelation (as some conceive) is disputed; some think that we shall remember what relation we have had one to another by circumstances and emergent occasions, by comparing notes as it were; but that discursive, syllogistical way, of coming into the knowledge one of another, seems to be too mean and slow for the heavenly state; and the reason is, because the senses of the body, and the faculties of the soul shall be elevated and refined to a kind of Angelical perfection, for we shall be like the Angels.