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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.
He bought the Inheritance for them, and them for the Inheritance at the same price.
This is the first thing implied in Fruition, Propriety; without which the vision were no way beatifical; for how can that make me happy, which I have no title to or interest in? 1Take away mine and ye take away Heaven; yea, take away mine and ye take away God: good is no farther good (to me) than as it is mine; and as I may warrantably claim my right to it, and interest in it.
This is the first thing implyed in Fruition, Propriety; without which the vision were no way beatifical; for how can that make me happy, which I have no title to or interest in? 1Take away mine and ye take away Heaven; yea, take away mine and ye take away God: good is no farther good (to me) than as it is mine; and as I may warrantably claim my right to it, and interest in it.
- 1Tolle meum, tolle Deum.
A second Property of Fruition is, Possession; 1the Saints have not only propriety in Heaven, but Possession of Heaven; when their dearest and sweetest Lord left the world, and ascended to his Father, they took possession of Heaven in him, as in their great Representative and Head, Joh. 14.2. But when they ascended to him, now they take possession of it in their own persons. They had livery and seisin given them by the Father, upon the consummation of their marriage with his dear Son Jesus Christ, their Royal Bridegroom. And it was done in the presence of the eternal Spirit, the public Notary of Heaven,