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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.
Ever with the Lord.
Adam by that first candle which God lighted in his first creation, clearly saw in what his summum bonum did consist, and for a moment enjoyed it; but the Angel, who keep not his first estate, envying his happiness, 1well remembering the method of his own apostasy, tempts him by the same medium of pride to cast himself down from the pinnacle of happiness, whereon he stood, whereby himself fell down from heaven; and the temptation unhappily took, for while Adam was ambitious to be a sun, he miserably put out his candle, and so lost his way and himself too, since which time none of his unhappy posterity could ever (by the help of that snuff which remained) find their way again to true happiness.
Adam by that first candle which God lighted in his first creation, clearly saw in what his summum bonum did confist, and for a moment enjoyed it; but the Angel, who kepe not his first estate, envying his happiness, 1well remembring the method of his own apostacy, tempts him by the same medium of pride to cast himself down from the pinnacle of happiness, whereon he stood, whereby himself fell down from heaven; and the temptation unhappily took, for while Adam was ambitious to be a sun, he miserably put out his candle, and so lost his way and himself too, since which time none of his unhappy posterity could ever (by the help of that snuff which remained) find their way again to true happiness.
- 1Ad solamen calomitat is suae, incipit perditus pordere.