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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.
Christians, if these things be not so, 1then Augustin mistook his Cordial which he wrote to the Lady Italica after her Husbands death, telling her, That she should know him amongst the glorified Saints, yea, know him, and love him batter than ever she did in this life; yea, ⟨p. 12⟩a greater than Augustin was mistaken else, even the great Apostle, who himself had been caught up to the third Heavens, and saw what was done there, even he was mistaken, when, 2by an Apostolical Spirit, he dignifieth his Thessalonians with those glorious titles, his hope, his joy, the crown of rejoicing, his glory and joy, and that in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming; Could they be all this to the Apostle in the resurrection, and he not know them, and be able to distinguish them from all other Saints of God, that shall stand on Christs right hand at that day? It cannot be: What although all such relations do cease in Heaven, must the remembrance of such relations cease also? Or, what if the glorified state make such an alteration in the Saints bodies, that they are not the same for colour, gesture, and some other accidental circumstances, (as when we knew them in the valley of tears) shall there be no line•••ent or property of individuation remaining, whereby the quick, acute eye of glorified sense may possibly discern who they were? There want not instances in our experience, of some, who from their childhood even unto full age, have been absent from their friends, whom yet many years after, upon a deliberate interview, their relations have called to perfect memory again: and if such a thing be possible in the imperfect state here, why should it seem a thing incredible, that the glorified eye and intellect should revive a distinct remembrance of their gracious relations, even out of the imperfect bints and notions of their former knowledge? If the resurrection do show nothing of the old individual distinction of persons, it may seem to be rather another Creation than a Resurrection, and may shake a main Article of our Christian Faith.
Christians, if these things be not so, 1