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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.
just so it is with riches (of what species soever) if the plunderer or oppressors, the thief, fire, inundations, &c. give them no wings, they will quickly give themselves wings, and take their slight towards heaven from whence they came.
just so it is with riches (of what species soever) if the plunderer or oppressours, the thief, fire, inundations, &c. give them no wings, they will quickly give themselves wings, and take their slight towards heaven from whence they came.
And are these the things which are proper to make up to a man a standing, holding felicity?
And are these the things which are proper to make up to a man a standing, holding selicity?
No, saith the Apostle, the things which are not seen are eternal. God, and Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect, and Heaven, and Glory, &c. these are the only beatifying objects, as being only of a pure, spiritual, fixed, immutable nature, the things that are not seen are eternal, and upon that account ⟨p. 106⟩only able to constitute an adequate blessedness for an immense and an immortal soul, an intellectual being.
No, saith the Apostle, the things which are not seen are eternal. God, and Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect, and Heaven, and Glory, &c. these are the only beatifying objects, as being only of a pure, spiritual, fixed, immutable nature, the things that are not seen are eternal, and upon that account ⟨p. 106⟩