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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.
Behold faith in the glorious Redeemer doth (at times) raise the Soul of the poor Believer to a marvellous high pitch of joy and ravishment, 1Whom having not seen ye love, in whom, though ye now see him not, yet believing ye rejoice, with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Behold faith in the glorious Redeemer doth (at times) raise the Soul of the poor Believer to a marvellous high pitch of joy and ravishment, 1Whom having not seen ye love, in whom, though ye now see him not, yet believing ye rejoyce, with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
The expression is very full, faith brings the Soul in love with an unseen Christ, and fills the heart with joy; not ordinary joy, such as men do easily express upon all occasions, but unspeakable, the heart conceives such joy that the tongue cannot utter, 1yea, it is not to be uttered by the tongue of men or Angels; it cannot be spoken, it is ineffable, and that is not all, it follows, it is glorious, and our translation gives it an addition very emphatical, 2full of glory; and yet that reacheth not the top of this joy, for the Greek signifieth not glorious only, but Glorified: faith fills the heart with glorified joy, a joy that rivals (as it were) the joy of the glorified Saints, a joy which sets the Soul for the present above it self, and puts it into Heaven before its time. Oh Christians, if faith, (which must not enter in within the veil) can transport the Soul into such extatical raptures, what can vision and fruition do? Oh the mountings of mind, the ravishing joys of heart, the solace of soul, which glorified Saints possess in the beatifical vision!