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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.
Well said the Apostle, It doth not yet appear what we shall be; surely eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither can it enter into the heart of man, &c.
This will be an infinite compensation to the Saints of God, for all their holy endeavours of being like to God, that as obedient Children they have been followers of their heavenly Father, 1and for all the reproaches and abasements they sustained from a reprobate world because of those endeavours.
This will be an infinite compensation to the Saints of God, for all their holy endeavours of being like to God, that as obedient Children they have been followers of their heavenly Father, 1and for all the reproaches and abasements they susteined from a reprobate world because of those endeavours.
- 1Eph. 5.1.
The earth was not able to bear the hard speeches, wherewith the enemies of God have reproached the footsteps of Gods anointed ones, labouring to insist in the steps of their heavenly Father, willing to be Nonconformists to the will and lusts of men, and striving to be conformable to the will and pattern of their holy King and Law giver the Lord Jesus the King of Saints: Now I say, it shall be no shame nor grief of heart unto them, when they shall reap the fruit of their weak and imperfect conformity on earth, in the most full and perfect consummation of that conformity in heaven; when behold whatsoever is glorious and wonderful in the person of their glorious Redeemer, or in the thrice glorious and blessed Trinity, the very print and Character of it shall be stamped upon the glorified Saints (in their created capacities) causing them to appear not only [Greek or Hebrew], as so many Angels, but even to resemble God himself, and to shine as so many Christs in the Kingdom of their heavenly Father; and they that laughed them to scorn shall see it, and their faces being filled with shame, their consciences with horror, and their hearts with envy; they shall now revile and curse themselves, howling out,