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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.
Object. It is said, We shall know as we are known!
Answ. It is true: But similitudes do not always quadrate, run upon all four, God knoweth us so far as we are knowable; Do we know God so to? It is impossible God should not know us, but is it impossible we should not know God? Could he not hide himself from us if he pleased? We do not know God in every respect as he knows us, therefore it doth not follow from this phrase, that we should know him quidditatively, immediately, intuitively, because he knoweth us so, unless there be some other Scripture remaining, on which such a kind of knowledge may be built, and other there is not, unless it be that of Saint John, 1We shall see him as he is. These words I confess come nearer the terms of the Schools, than any other I could ever observe in Sacred Writ; yet neither can these (without violence) be extended to the seeing of the Divine essence essentially; my reason is, because the object here promised, is not the Divine nature or being, but the Lord Jesus Christ, the Mediator; and that according to the nature which he assumed in the fullness of time, and in which he shall at last appear to judge the world: when he so appeareth, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, i. e. in the brightness and fullness of his state of exaltation; here we saw him but in his state of humiliation, then we shall see him in his state of exaltation; As he is set on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens.
Answ. It is true: But similitudes do not alwayes quadrate, run upon all four, God knoweth us so far as we are knowable; Do we know God so to? It is impossible God should not know us, but is it impossible we should not know God? Could he not hide himself from us if he pleased? We do not know God in every respect as he knows us, therefore it doth not follow from this phrase, that we should know him quidditatively, immediately, intuitively, because he knoweth us so, unless there be some other Scripture remaining, on which such a kind of knowledge may be built, and other there is not, unless it be that of Saint John, 1