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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.
I come now to the Complement and perfection of this last fruit and consequent of Christ his coming (the Saints cohabitation and fellowship with the Lord) namely, The extent and duration of it in this particle ever.
We shall ever be with the Lord.1
- 1The extent and duration ever.
Ever, a little word, but of immense signification! a Child may speak it, 1but neither Man nor Angel can understand it. Oh who can take the dimensions of eternity? Yea, who can tell me how long half eternity is? Behold I show you a Mystery, half eternity is eternity; yea, every part and particle of eternity is eternity; for eternity is not made up of hours, or days, or years, or lustrums; or jubilees, or ages, or millions of Ages, the whole space between the creation of the world and the dissolution of it, would not make a day in eternity; yea, so many years as there be days in that space would not fill up an hour in eternity. Eternity is one entire Circle, beginning and ending in it self. This present world, which is measured out by such divisions and distinctions of times, is therefore mortal, and will have end, 2 Cor. 4.18.
Ever, a little word, but of immense signification! a Child may speak it, 1but neither Man nor Angel can understand it. Oh who can take the demensions of eternity? Yea, who can tell me how long half eternity is? Behold I shew you a Mystery, half eternity is eternity; yea, every part and particle of eternity is eternity; for eternity is not made up of hours, or dayes, or years, or lustrums; or jubiles, or ages, or millions of Ages, the whole space between the creation of the world and the dissolution of it, would not make a day in eternity; yea, so many years as there be dayes in that space would not fill up an hour in eternity. Eternity is one entire Circle, beginning and ending in it self. This present world, which is measured out by such divisions and distinctions of times, is therefore mortal, and will have end,