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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.
First, They were but the pleasures of sin, fit for nothing but to defile the soul, and to render it unmeet for communion with God, wherein consists the highest felicity of the humane or of the Angelical nature: sensitive pleasures have more of dregs, intellectual more of the quintessence; the pleasure of the Bee is more refined than the pleasure of a Swine.
2. Again, another fault he finds in pleasures is, their brevity; ⟨p. 103⟩as they were the pleasures of sin, 1so they were but for a season; as impure as they were they had no duration, they perish in the using, so soon doth the pleasure of an Epicure wither, he eats, and drinks, and dieth before his morsel or his draught be swallowed. 2Anacreon in the midst of his cups was choked with the husk or kernel of a grape, so did Epicurus himself dye with a cup of wine at his mouth; and this was the end of their summum bonum; the sweetest pleasures are the shortest. Moses his Spirit was to august to be filled with a little poisoned air. But.
2. Again, another fault he finds in pleasures is, their brevity; ⟨p. 103⟩as they were the pleasures of sin, 1so they were but for a season; as impure as they were they had no duration, they perish in the using, so soon doth the pleasure of an Epicure wither, he eats, and drinks, and dieth before his morsel or his draught be swallowed. 2Anacreon in the midst of his cups was choaked with the husk or kernel of a grape, so did Epicurus himself dye with a cup of wine at his mouth; and this was the end of their summum bonum; the sweetest pleasures are the shortest. Moses his Spirit was to august to be filled with a little poysoned air. But.