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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.
These be some crevices, through which we may have a glimpse of the glory of our Lords (once) crucified body; the full discovery of it you will never be able to make, until you come eye to eye, to see and enjoy it in the Kingdom of Heaven, witness a second Consideration.
A second consideration evidencing what a glorious beatifying object the glorified humanity of our Lord Jesus will be in Heaven, is, 1The personal and hypostatical union which the humane nature hath with the divine nature of the Son of God, 2the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth in Christ bodily, i. e. in his body: the fullness of the divine essence dwells in the humane nature, and is (as it were) transparent through his flesh; and this makes it to be the most beatifying vision, next to the vision of God himself; and indeed is (in a very high degree) the vision of the essence, because the glorious properties and excellencies of the Godhead are, as it were, radiant and refulgent in the flesh of our Redeemer, therefore he is called, 3The brightness of his Fathers glory, the brightness or refulgency of God the Fathers glory, not only in reference to his divine essence, the second-Person in Trinity, but as he is Verbum incarnatum, the Word incarnate, as he is God-man, because all the beams of divine Majesty do shine forth with a most resplendent brightness in his flesh; [Greek or Hebrew]; augasma is that which hath brightness and glory in it self, such is the divine nature and essence, it is the fountain and body of glory, from whence all brightness and splendour doth beam and issue; but apaugasma is that ⟨p. 24⟩which receiveth that brightness into it self, as a glass or mirror receives into it the beams of the Sun; such a mirror is the flesh of Christ to the divine essence, wherein all the glorious beams of divine wisdom, holiness, mercy, goodness and truth, &c. do shine forth. This is the mystery Saint Paul admireth,