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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.
Not to recur to any thing already spoken, I shall only take the hint of the Psalmists Question, Psal. 89.47. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? For the better understanding whereof, we are to take notice, that the rise of the Question is a passionate complaint of the Prophet, concerning the brevity and misery of the present life, in Job's phrase (Heb.) Short of days and full of trouble: In the former part of the verse, Lord, remember how short my time is.
Not to recur to any thing already spoken, I shall only take the hint of the Psalmists Question, Psal. 89.47. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? For the better understanding whereof, we are to take notice, that the rise of the Question is a passionate complaint of the Prophet, concerning the brevity and misery of the present life, in Job's phrase (Heb.) Short of dayes and full of trouble: In the former part of the verse, Lord, remember how short my time is.
And in this latter part of the verse he doth, as it were, expostulate the case with God, why God would have it so? Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
In which words, although he seem to ask God the question, yet he giveth himself the answer, and the answer is negative, q. d. No: God made not men in vain: It is not possible that the Wisdom of God should make such an ⟨p. 88⟩excellent Creature as man (the master-piece of the whole nether world) to no purpose: It cannot be, that God should bring in such a Creature only to take a turn or two in the world, and then to disappear, never to be heard of any more! What then? Why thence he doth rationally infer, that certainly in mans creation God had a design upon him, in order to a future estate: And what was that? But what the wise man discovers to us,