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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.
Loose not, I beseech you, eternal glory for a flash of impure joy, sell not an eternal inheritance cheaper than ever Esau sold his birth right, for one draught of swill out of the swine-trough of sensual pleasures,
The Devil offers you the glory of the world, God offers eternal glory; put not a scorn upon Gods offers, nor a cheat upon your own souls: the Devils offers are not only inconsiderable, but fraudulent, he offers that which is none of his own to give [the world] or if it were, it would be infinitely too short of the price he will have for it, your precious and immortal souls; What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? And suppose thou shouldst repent of thy bargain, the Devil will not repent of his, nor will he ⟨p. 108⟩sell as he buyeth; shouldst thou say to him, here Devil, take the world and give me my soul again, I repent, he'd but laugh at thee, and say as the Priests said to Judas,
The Devil offers you the glory of the world, God offers eternal glory; put not a scorn upon Gods offers, nor a cheat upon your own souls: the Devils offers are not only inconsiderable, but fraudulent, he offers that which is none of his own to give [the world] or if it were, it would be insinitely too short of the price he will have for it, your precious and immortal souls; What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? And suppose thou shouldst repent of thy bargain, the Devil will not repent of his, nor will he ⟨p. 108⟩sell as he buyeth; shouldst thou say to him, here Devil, take the world and give me my soul again, I repent, he'd but laugh at thee, and say as the Priests said to Judas,