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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.
then shall the Saints be able to understand the mystery of the incarnation of the second Person, the Son of God, that Mystery of Godliness (of Godliness, 1because it transforms sinners into Saints; and mystery, because it containeth so many deep and mysterious wonders in it. The blessed, blessed-making Mystery of the Incarnation, of the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, scil. Why the second Person in Trinity, rather than the first or third should be ⟨p. 44⟩incarnate? Why he should take the nature of man rather than the nature of Angels, and that when it was at the worst? how he could take the nature of sinful man, and yet not take the sinfulness of his nature? the Hypostatical union between the divine and humane natures in the Lord Jesus, in one person; how there should be there aliud & aliud, and yet not alius & alius? That mysterious union, between the Lord Christ the Head, and all Believers the true Members of his body, what it is, and how they are made one with Christ, as the Father and the Son are one; this precious Mystery (I say) shall then be made manifest, John 14.20. at that day you shall know, both what it is, and how it is, that I am in the Father, and you in me, and I in you, &c. then, and not till then. How he that is every where, filling Heaven and Earth with his presence, should yet be included in the narrow limits of a Virgins womb? How he that made the Law, should be made under the Law? How the Ancient of days should become an Infant of moments? How he that was begot before all time, should be born in the fullness of time? 2How a Virgin, and yet a Mother! These and a thousand difficulties more, wherein doth meet that [Greek or Hebrew], multiform, multivarious wisdom of God, 3as lines in a centre, where into the very Angels desire to peep, and for some imperfect discoveries, whereof they are glad to be beholding to the Lectures read in the Churches, by their *earthly Angels, the Ministers of the Gospel; these, I say, shall be clearly read and understood in that original wisdom wherein they were first conceived.