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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.
In a word, the Saints shall live in love, and have all in him who is all, not so much as wishing their fellow Saints less, or themselves more, nor any thing in that whole world of felicities otherwise than it is. This is fruition.
Oh that all that have this bope in them would study to begin this life here below!
The next property of this fruition is Fixedness: 1There be of those things in the world which men call felicities, which (if they be not mistaken in their nature) to be sure they will find floating and unfixed. There is scarce a comfort which we possess in this moveable world, that we can find the same at the years end, or at the months end, which we fancy them to be at the beginning: all our most beautiful objects, how quickly they change colour, and our very options grow stale upon our hands, In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth, 2Psal. 90 6. But blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us to an inheritance, 3uncorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away; the heavenly inheritance is compared to that precious stone that cannot be soiled; (as one of the Ancients writes) and to a choice flower that never withereth, but is always green.4
The next property of this fruition is Fixedness: