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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 entire Image of God, 1which was imprinted upon the Soul in the first Creation, and reprinted upon it (though in an imperfect character) in the new Creation, shall now be perfected to the life in the Regeneration, the Saints shall be as like God as ever they can look, as like God as ever Children were like their Father; so that there will be nothing but looking and liking the one upon the other.
- 1Eph. 5.1. It was their duty in the state of grace, it shall be their infinite dignity in the state of glory.
Prevent that holy gaze now, oh ye children of the most high God, be often taken up in the beholding and contemplation of the face of your heavenly Father; behold, will it not Quicken you to duty? Comfort you in your droppings? Cause you to overlook the contempt of the world with an holy pride? And even be the dawnings of glory upon your faces, whereby some line and lineaments of beauty shall be added daily to that blessed draught begun already against that day!
Prevent that holy gaze now, oh ye children of the most high God, be often taken up in the beholding and contemplation of the face of your heavenly Father; behold, will it not Quicken you to duty? Comfort you in your droopings? Cause you to overlook the contempt of the world with an holy pride? And even be the dawnings of glory upon your faces, whereby some line and lineaments of beauty shall be added daily to that blessed draught begun already against that day!
Once more before we go off from this pleasing contemplation, add we,