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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.
Were this error the fruit only of incapacity, as it is in little Infants, that cannot judge what belongs to their present or future good, verily it were a thousand pities, an infelicity upon the humane nature to be lamented with tears of blood; but that rational Creatures, furnished with such noble faculties, for such divine and heavenly purposes, should through a mere brutish sensuality be so willingly content to remain at such uncertainties, is the most dreadful prodigy that can possibly enter into the heart of man!
Were this errour the fruit only of incapacity, as it is in little Infants, that cannot judge what belongs to their present or future good, verily it were a thousand pities, an infelicity upon the humane nature to be lamented with tears of blood; but that rational Creatures, furnished with such noble faculties, for such divine and heavenly purposes, should through a mere brutish sensuality be so willingly content to remain at such uncertainties, is the most dreadful prodigy that can possibly enter into the heart of man!
That adult persons grown up to maturity should despise their birth-rights, and desperately neglect to look into their writings, which relate to such an immortal estate, ⟨p. 110⟩argues not only the woeful degeneracy of the humane nature, how rife and pregnant the seeds both of ignorance and atheism are therein, but even a judicial blast upon their understandings, as if the God of Heaven had given them up to the God of the world, 1to blind the eyes of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them.
That adult persons grown up to maturity should despise their birth-rights, and desperately neglect to look into their writings, which relate to such an immortal estate, ⟨p. 110⟩