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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.
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⟩only able to constitute an adequte blessedness for an immense and an immortal soul, an intellectual being.
Corporeal delights like so many sparks may make a crack and vanish; 1nothing can seem great and excellent to him that knows the infinite vastness of eternity. Ever with the Lord, here's a summum bonum for an heaven-born soul: this Moses kept his eye upon, and therefore all terrestrial felicities were but as sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal, much noise, but no harmony, he saw him that is invisible, an elegant contradiction, q. d. he saw him that could not be seen, he saw him by an eye of faith, whom he could not see by an eye of sense, and so did Saint Paul, and so did all his fellow Apostles and Saints, We look on the things which are not seen, i. e. we look on them, and them, and them alone as our ultimate, unmixed and supreme good. Men and women, who have none but eyes of flesh, such as beasts have, may choose their good as beasts do by sight and sense, but man that is in honour and understands not, is like the beasts that perish,