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…

Sixthly, ¹God is eternal, and therefore Heaven must be eternal also. In Heaven there are no second causes, which ⟨p. 93⟩are obnoxious to contingency or alteration? all causes there are resolved into the first being and sovereign cause, where they remain sixth and immutable, as that immense Being himself, and because he liveth eternally, they shall so live also. The eternity of Gods being layeth the foundation of the eternity of the Saints glory.

Sixthly, ¹God is eternal, and therefore Heaven must be eternal also. In Heaven there are no second causes, which ⟨p. 93⟩are obnoxious to contingency or alteration? all causes there are resolved into the first being and soveraign cause, where they remain fixt and immutable, as that immense Being himself, and because he liveth eternally, they shall so live also. The eternity of Gods being layeth the foundation of the eternity of the Saints glory.

1. 16. Attribute, Eternity.

^*The Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple of it, the Sun that shineth there by day, & the Moon by night, are no part of the first Creation, which is to ^†pass away, but the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof; there shall not be so much as a post of the old fabric in this new building, to infirm or endanger it: God alone is the Roof and Foundation of Heaven, the very Centre and Circumference is God; all the Arches and Pillars of Heaven are made of the Tree of life, in which no worm can breed which may corrode or consume the Saints mansions; no moth is there to fret and eat out the long white robes where with the Saints are adorned; nor Thief to break into the Palace of the great King, to steal away their crown from them? There is malice enough indeed in that [Greek or Hebrew], the Angel of the bottomless pit, and all his cursed Goal-birds, to act such hellish villainies, not upon the Saints only, but upon God himself, even to pull him out of his Throne if they could; but thanks be to God, they are made fast enough in the lowest Dungeon, where they are staked down by a perpetual Decree, and reserved in bains of darkness for ever, so that the Saints need not fear that Antichristian brood shall ever break loose to cast in one Grenade, or Fire-ball, into the walls of the new Jerusalem, or to break open the gates thereof to disturb their peace.