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…

Behold, God is the heaven of his Saints, what can put a period to this heaven.

A seventh Attribute is Love: ¹Which way should the glory of the Saints come to be extinguished, or so much as eclipsed? If such a thing could be, it must arise from a cessation of divine love, which cannot be supposed: Will God grow weary of their company? Behold! he made them (when he brought them into that state of glory) as perfect as he would have them be (I had well nigh said) ⟨p. 95⟩as perfect as he could make them, that they might be a meet Bride for his first-born, his only begotten Son; and now behold, he that hated putting away in the fantastical Jew (unless it were in case of adultery) will he give the Lambs Wife a Bill of divorce, and put her out of doors in whom (since her first reception) there was never sound the least disloyalty, no not in thought, but remaineth without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, as immaculate as the elect Angels? or must they also fare no better than the Angels that kept not their first estate? Must all be cast out for ever, and heaven stand now as an house to be let, without a Tenant? ²Were not this more than a shadow of turning? Of the Lord and Head of the Saints in the days of his flesh it was said, having loved his own, he loved them to the end: And is his love less now in heaven than it was on earth? Is Christs love to his Church, now she is his wife, less sincere and intense, than when she was but his Spouse? Did Christ love more ardently at a distance, than now in their mutual embraces? These are prodigious blasphemies, ³not once to be admitted into our thoughts: Nay, saith God, The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.