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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.
Man that understands not what a bubble, what a shadow, 1what a dream all sublunary glory is; man that understands not what immarcessible Crowns of glory are prepared for them that love God, this man shall be like the beasts that perish, he shall have the burial of an ass, though he hath swayed a Sceptre, he shall fall like a brute into the ditch and dye there; though he hath flourished like a green Bay-tree, rottenness shall be upon his root, and his blossom shall go up into smoke.
Man that understands not what a bubble, what a shadow, 1what a dream all sublunary glory is; man that understands not what immarcessible Crowns of glory are prepared for them that love God, this man shall be like the beasts that perish, he shall have the burial of an ass, though he hath swayed a Scepter, he shall fall like a brute into the ditch and dye there; though he hath flourished like a green Bay-tree, rottenness shall be upon his root, and his blossom shall go up into smoak.
- 1Ratio humans tantum in praesenti sta• haeret, nihil aliud audit, sentit, intelligit, vider, cogitat. Luth. in Isai. 54.7.
Be wise now therefore O ye Kings, and be instructed O ye people of the earth, spend not your strength in vain, and your labour for that which satisfieth not, strive not to force that out of the Creature, which God never put in; you may as well extract fire out of the Ocean, mollify rocks into syrup, wash the Ethiopian white, as squeeze happiness out of mortality.
Be wise now therefore O ye Kings, and be instructed O ye people of the earth, spend not your strength in vain, and your labour for that which satisfieth not, strive not to force that out of the Creature, which God never put in; you may as well extract fire out of the Ocean, mollifie rocks into syrup, wash the Ethiopian white, as squeeze happiness out of mortality.