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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.
Out of these nine Ingredients or Properties there ariseth a tenth, the very top of all, scil. Delight and Complacency; 1and this makes Heaven to be Heaven indeed, the joy of the Lord, even the same joy which God himself possesseth; the same for kind, though not for degree.
- 110 Property. Complacency.
Propriety, Possession, Intimacy, Suitableness, Satiety, Reflection, Immutability, they all meet in God essentially, making up an infinite delight and complacency in the Saints and Angels, they are perfectly, though bounded and limited according to the capacity of the Creature, 1making up a delight and joy, which (on this side Heaven) passeth all understanding; of which the Psalmist sings,
Propriety, Possession, Intimacy, Suitableness, Satiety, Reflexion, Immutability, they all meet in God essentially, making up an infinite delight and complacency in the Saints and Angels, they are perfectly, though bounded and limitted according to the capacity of the Creature, 1making up a delight and joy, which (on this side Heaven) passeth all understanding; of which the Psalmist sings,
- 1We cannot conceive it until it receive us.
In thy presence is fullness of joy,