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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.
How unsearchable […] his counsels, and his thoughts ⟨p. 98⟩past finding out! Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
How unscarchable 〈…〉 his counsels, and his thoughts ⟨p. 98⟩past finding out! Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
And here I might fix a full point to mine own and the Readers labour; but because I find our Apostle closing his words of comfort with a word of counsel, Wherefore comfort one another, &c. give me leave to follow my Guide, and before we dismiss this beatifica? contemplation, let us enquire a little further what blessed improvement may be made of it, even on this side of Eternity!
And the first Use we may make of it may be that which the Psalmist makes the title of the 32. Use 1 Psalm, (as of some others) Maschil, a Psalm to give instruction. Let this (I say) be a word or Doctrine to teach: And what doth it teach? Even the very sum in the total sum, which David's Psalm there teacheth, namely, who is the truly blessed man, and wherein real blessedness doth consist? Holy David saw the sons of men every where dis-spiriting themselves in the vehement prosecutions of blessedness, every man would be happy, but the mischief is, men seek blessedness where it is not to be found; every one knocks at the wrong door; and therefore he labours to call them off from their mistaken pursuits in some such language, Oh ye sons of men, how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Come hither, and hearken, and I will show you the thing which you are seeking and hunting after, but in vain; behold! I will show you who is indeed the blessed man, namely, the pardoned man — blessednesses to the man whose transgression is forgiven,