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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.
And behold! if these objects, which contain in them the utmost latitude of all worldly excellency (and that in their puris naturalibus) were never ordained by the great and wise Creator, for any higher service than of the inferior part of man, the sensitive part (wherein he differs little from the beasts that perish) now, when by the malice of the Devil, and the corruption of mans heart, they are debauched and poisoned into so many snares and temptations, how totally (I say) uncapable are they become, of being an adequate blessedness for immortal souls.
And behold! if these objects, which contain in them the utmost latitude of all worldly excellency (and that in their puris naturalibus) were never ordained by the great and wise Creator, for any higher service than of the inferiour part of man, the sensitive part (wherein he differs little from the beasts that porish) now, when by the malice of the Devil, and the corruption of mans heart, they are debauched and poysoned into so many snares and temptations, how totally (I say) uncapable are they become, of being an adequate blessedness for immortal souls.
Such of the sons and daughters of Adam, as have had the candle of the Lord (which was put out by the fall) lighted anew by the Sun of Righteousness, are mightily enabled by the irradiation of the Holy Ghost, to discern the airiness and emptiness of all sublunary and elementary happiness, and to make choice of more solid, supercelestial excellencies for their summum bonum, to sing with the sweet singer of Israel.
In thy presence is fullness of joy, 1and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
In thy presence is fulness of joy,