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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.
Moreover, 1the Saints are like God in their affections. They love what God loveth, and hate what God hateth, their joy is Gods joy; they rejoice in God and in his glory, they rejoice in Jesus Christ their Bridegroom, and he rejoiceth in them; As the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee; that was but the word spoken to the Church at her Espousals, what must the joy be (think we) upon her wedding-day.
Moreover, 1the Saints are like God in their affections. They love what God loveth, and hate what God hateth, their joy is Gods joy; they rejoyce in God and in his glory, they rejoyce in Jesus Christ their Bridegroom, and he rejoyceth in them; As the Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoyce over thee; that was but the word spoken to the Church at her Espousals, what must the joy be (think we) upon her wedding-day.
- 1In their affections, Love, Hatred, Joy. His exaltation to the right hand of his Father. Isai. 62.5.
All the affections which either were inordinate, or suitable only to the imperfect state, as envy, malice, fear, hope, desire, &c. they are all abolished, as either inconsistent with or useless to the heavenly state; and therein consists no small part of their conformity to God, as being capable of nothing which denoteth infirmity or imperfection.
The Saints are like God in their memories, they shall have holy memories; their memories shall be like the Ark of the Covenant, which was overlaid with gold, wherein (according to the Apostles Inventory) were The golden Pot that had Manna. And Aaron's Rod that budded. And the Tables of the Covenant,