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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.
3. This offer also thus despised, the Mammon of Egypt presents its self to Moses; (money may tempt him that is not taken with beauty:) What say you Moses, all the treasures of Egypt attend your Highness, ready to make you one of the richest Monarchs in the world, for so at that time Egypt was for Jewels, Gold, Silver, precious Stones, all the peculiar treasure of Kings, the most opulentous of all Kingdoms round about, the very Magazine of the world, Moses need never to fear being poor any more: Is not this enough to make a man happy? No, not a Moses: 1a covetous Mammonist might have taken it down with a grateful swallow; such an one as Felix was, that insatiable gulf of riches, as the Historian calls him—but Moses (as the Papists once said of Luther) could not be caught with money: The reproach of Christ was a mountain of infinitely more valuable, invaluable treasure, esteeming the reproach of Christ, i. e. Christ in the promise, or the reproach of the Church, which is Christ mystical, 1 Cor. 12.12. Oh, saith Moses, let me be counted worthy to suffer reproach for Christ and his peoples sake, and I desire no more riches in the world: How so? Moses faith did clearly out-bid all the proffers of Egypt, he looks within the veil, 2fixing his eye upon the recompense of neward, and there he discovered such honours, pleasures, treasures as eye never saw, 3ear never ⟨p. 104⟩heard, nor can enter into the heart of man, in comparison whereof, all the preferments, delights and riches of Egypt were but as so many gilded erowns, painted banquets, insignificant cyphers, ten thousand of which in the summa totalis, make just nothing.
3. This offer also thus despised, the Mammon of Egypt presents its self to Moses; (money may tempt him that is not taken with beauty:) What say you Moses, all the treasures of Egypt attend your Highness, ready to make you one of the richest Monarchs in the world, for so at that time Egypt was for Jewels, Gold, Silver, precious Stones, all the peculiar treasure of Kings, the most opulentous of all Kingdoms round about, the very Magazine of the world, Moses need never to fear being poor any more: Is not this enough to make a man happy? No, not a Moses: