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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 miserably did the great Sophi•s of the world, the Philosophers, 1those Secretaries of Nature, the reputed Masters of Knowledge and Learning, cum ratione insanire! and in the Apostles language, Grow vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened! How did they weary themselves with the blind Sodomites to grope out the door which openeth to happiness, but lost themselves instead of finding the truth?
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Rom. 21. In their ratiocinations.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Rom. 21. In their ratiocinations.
Varro the learnedst of the Romans maketh report of no less than two hundred and eighty Opinions (in his time) concerning mans chiefest good, 1each differing from the other, and all from the truth, as Basilis is reported to have asserted one hundred sixty five Heavens.
- 1Aul. Gol.
To this very day we see all the sons and daughters of Adam seeking for happiness, but few or none finding what they seek for, all agree in the notion, but they differ in the object. People generally go for happiness to the worlds Trinity. Scil. The lust of the flesh, 1 John 2.16