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…

The sinners feast is soon served in, but the Messengers of divine Justice are preparing the reckoning, and then are ready to take away: And how sad will the catastrophe of that pleasure be, when the sting of the shot must survive in Conscience of the sinner to all eternity? Glorified Saints are entertained upon free cost, no affrighting thoughts need discompose them so as to break any one draught of those pleasures wherewith their cup runs over, or to hinder the pleasing swallow of those delicate morsels wherewith their table is full fraught, no army of evils or of devils can break in upon them, to make them forsake their Nuptial feast; sensitive pleasure is contracted to the narrow point of a [Greek or Hebrew], for the sense hath no delight but by the enjoyment of the present object, and indeed so is glorified pleasure too, but with this difference, that Heavens [Greek or Hebrew] is eternity it self, They shall ever be with the Lord.

The sinners feast is soon served in, but the Messengers of divine Justice are preparing the reckoning, and then are ready to take away: And how sad will the catastrophe of that pleasure be, when the sting of the shot must survive in Conscience of the sinner to all eternity? Glorified Saints are entertained upon freecost, no affeighting thoughts need discompose them so as to break any one draught of those pleasures wherewith their cup runs over, or to hinder the pleasing swallow of those delicate morsels wherewith their table is full fraught, no army of evils or of devils can break in upon them, to make them forsake their Nuptial feast; sensitive pleasure is contracted to the narrow point of a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for the sense hath no delight but by the enjoyment of the present object, and indeed so is glorified pleasure too, but with this difference, that Heavens 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is eternity it self, They shall ever be with the Lord.

Oh what a prodigious forfeiture of reason is this, for the momentany satisfaction of a sordid lust, to loose eternal cohabitation with God, this transcendent beatitude, ever with the Lord! Yea, to plunge ones self into that opposite gulf of misery, never with the Lord, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,