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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.
An eighth Attribute is Justice. 1The cessation of heaven and hell would utterly destroy divine justice, and make that cease also for ever. Take away those two tremendous patterns of Reward and Punishments, heaven and hell, by which the Saints (here below) do justify God, and vindicate the truth of the Christian Religion against all other Religions in the world, and you cut the very sinews of Religion, and make Laws of God vain and insignificant; you starve the hope of the godly, and extinguish the fear of the wicked.
An eighth Attribute is Justice. 1The cessation of heaven and hell would utterly destroy divine justice, and make that cease also for ever. Take away those two tremendous patterns of Rewarde and Punishments, heaven and hell, by which the Saints (here below) do justifie God, and vindicate the truth of the Christian Religion against all other Religions in the world, and you cut the very sinews of Religion, and make Laws of God vain and insignificant; you starve the hope of the godly, and extinguish the fear of the wicked.
- 18. Attribute, The justice of God.
Ninthly, A cessation of the joys of Heaven, and of the torments of Hell, would turn Heaven into nothing else but the carnal dream of a Turkish Paradise, and Hell into the ⟨p. 96⟩ridiculous fancy of a Popish Purgatory. If ever we be happy, we must be assured of the perpetuity of our state, or else the whole vision will be but as a pleasing dream, wherein we may fancy our selves to be happy, but are indeed miserable in ignorance and mistake.