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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 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, 1The Lord hath made all things for himself, i. e. for his own glory; scil. The wicked for the day of evil, to the manifestation of his justice, and the godly for the day of redemption, to the exaltation of his free grace; in both which (however the wicked may seem in this world to go unpunished, and the godly unrewarded yet) God will have time enough to make reparations to his justice in another world; hell and heaven will make amends for all.
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 neather 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, 1The Lord hath made all things for himself, i. e. for his own glory; scil. The wicked for the day of evil, to the manifestation of his justice, and the godly for the day of redemption, to the exaltation of his free grace; in both which (however the wicked may seem in this world to go unpunished, and the godly unrewarded yet) God will have time enough to make reparations to his justice in another world; hell and heaven will make amends for all.