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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.
The most delicate of all our sublunary delights, of which we are (at first) so fond, that we cannot spare them a moment out of our eye, but are always courting of them, and solacing our selves in their fruition, do quickly grow stale and flat upon our hands.
The most delicate of all our sublunary delights, of which we are (at first) so fond, that we cannot spare them a moment out of our eye, but are alwayes courting of them, and solacing our selves in their fruition, do quickly grow stale and flat upon our hands.
What is storied of Tython, a beautiful active young man, holds full analogy with all our Creature-felicities; Aurora (for the elegance of his person and industry) begged him of Jupiter to be her Husband; withal praying, that he might never dye; both which Jupiter granted; but she, through her womanish inadvertency, forgetting to pray that he might not grow old as well as not dye, in his old age he grew impotent and burdensome to himself, and to Aurora too; so that repenting of her choice, Jupiter out of pity turned him into a Grasshopper.
What is storied of Tython, a beautiful active young man, holds full analogy with all our Creature-felicities; Aurora (for the elegancy of his person and industry) begg'd him of Jupiter to be her Husband; withall praying, that he might never dye; both which Jupiter granted; but she, through her womanish inadvertency, forgetting to pray that he might not grow old as well as not dye, in his old age he grew impotent and burdensome to himself, and to Aurora too; so that repenting of her choice, Jupiter out of pity turn'd him into a Grashopper.
Such are all our worldly beatitudes, we would fain espouse them to our selves, and write eternity upon them; but how brave and sprightly soever they appear in our first appetitions of them, they quickly grow old and fastidious, and signify no more than so many impotent Grasshoppers.