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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.
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,
The very bodies of the Saints shall share in this blessed conformity as well as the soul: It had its degree in the first Paradise, man had a kind of resemblance to God in the very make of his body, 1beautiful; upright, active, no such visible picture of God, in Heaven or Earth, as man was, not Sun, Moon, or Stars, not Earth, and Sea, or the visible Heavens themselves have so much of their Maker in them as the body of man; his very corporeal senses had much of God in them, they were Vestigia Dei, though not Imago, one might easily have known who was their Father.
The very bodies of the Saints shall share in this blessed conformity as well as the soul: It had its degree in the first Paradise, man had a kind of resemblance to God in the very make of his body,