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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.
Earth is a place of mixture and composition, somewhat suitable, and somewhat unsuitable; some pleasure, some vexation: Hell and Heaven are the extremes: Hell is a place of unmixed torment, nothing there but what is renitency to the will of the damned; nothing present but what the Reprobate would not; nothing absent but what he wisheth for.
Heaven is a place of unmixed joy; 1nothing wanting of all that blessed Souls can rationally desire; nothing absent, the absence whereof can possibly give any check to their fullest delight.
- 1Nullum bonum abesset hominis quod recta voluntas op•ar• possit. Aug. De Ci. vit. Dei.
And though possibly there may be several orbs of glory, (for as one Star differeth from another in glory, so also is the Resurrection of the dead) yet shall not the inferior orb envy the superior, nor think it self too low; there shall be no such voices heard from the mouth of any the meanest Inhabitant, Oh were I but in such a superior orb I should be happy, such a Mansion would please me better: This would destroy fruition, and make heaven cease to be heaven: but no such whisper is to be heard, no such thought in that holy Mountain; because, the glory of one is the glory of all, and every Saint is as happy in another's fullness, as in its own; yea, it enjoyeth its own and the others glory too; the narrowest capacity is widened by the others fullness; the joy of one is the joy of all.
And though possibly there may be several orbs of glory, (for as one Star differeth from another in glory, so also is the Resurrection of the dead) yet shall not the inferiour orbe envy the superiour, nor think it self too low; there shall be no such voices heard from the mouth of any the meanest Inhabitant, Oh were I but in such a superiour orbe I should be happy, such a Mansion would please me better: This would destroy fruition, and make heaven cease to be heaven: but no such whisper is to be heard, no such thought in that holy Mountain; because, the glory of one is the glory of all, and every Saint is as happy in anothers fulness, as in its own; yea, it enjoyeth its own and the others glory too; the narrowest capacity is widened by the others fulness; the joy of one is the joy of all.