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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.
Suitableness is another Ingredient into Fruition, 1without which both the former, scil. both Intimacy and Fullness would be a burden, and not a bliss; suffering rather than fruition. In the choice of our inferior felicities in this life, whether things or persons, we have more respect to the suitableness of them, than to their preciousness: the just content of the married estate consists not in the rareness of beauty, or largeness of portion or possessions, no, not (always) in the eminency of grace, but in the suitableness of disposition; and so our experience will tell us of all other states and conditions in the world; and this is the great infelicity of this present world, that it affords it not such an absolute parity between the person and the possession (from the King upon the Throne, to the Hermit in the Cave) as that a Person should be found that can say (unless it be upon the account of gracious submission to the divine will) I would not wish my condition other than it is.
Suitableness is another Ingredient into Fruition, 1without which both the former, scil. both Intimacy and Fulness would be a burden, and not a bliss; suffering rather than fruition. In the choice of our inferiour felicities in this life, whether things or persons, we have more respect to the suitableness of them, than to their preciousness: the just content of the married estate consists not in the rareness of beauty, or largeness of portion or possessions, no, not (alwayes) in the eminency of grace, but in the suitableness of disposition; and so our experience will tell us of all other states and conditions in the world; and this is the great infelicity of this present world, that it affords it not such an absolute parity between the person and the possession (from the King upon the Throne, to the Hermit in the Cave) as that a Person should be found that can say (unless it be upon the account of gracious submission to the divine will) I would not wish my condition other than it is.
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