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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.
Moses in the Old Testament, and Paul in the New, stand as two pillars of fire, to light men the way to true blessedness.
Moses was courted by all the honours, pleasures and treasures of Egypt, to espouse them as his ultimate and supreme beatitudes, but he shakes them off all (as once Paul the Viper into the fire) not less full of poison than that venomous beast was.1
Moses was courted by all the honours, pleasures and treasures of Egypt, to espouse them as his ultimate and supreme beatitudes, but he shakes them off all (as once Paul the Viper into the fire) not less full of poyson than that venomous beast was.1
- 1Acts 28.•4.
First, Pride of life, the honour and grandeur of Pharaoh's Court came to do him homage; every one in the Kings Court (for there he was brought up) bowed the knee, and saluted Moses by the Prince-like title of the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter, which signified no less than Heir apparent to the Crown of Egypt, Pharaoh having then no other Child but that only Daughter, nor she, but Moses, ⟨p. 102⟩whom she had adopted to be her Son from the Cradle of Bull rushes; yet all this glory did Moses, when he came to years (able to make his own choice) refuse, by faith seeing what an hollow insignificant advancement this was; i• was not the Egyptian Monarchy which could make Moses happy, especially in the terms he must take it, namely, to turn Egyptian, and forsake the society of Gods people; no, said Moses, I'll have none of it; to suffer with Gods people here, and to reign with God hereafter, is a felicity infinitely to be preferred before all the Empires in the world.