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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.
3. God would have us sit loose from the Creature; here God would have us contented to be at uncertainties, Matth. 6. ver. 25.
Take no thought for your life. 34. Take no thought for to morrow.
In the concerns of the present life, God would have us live at an holy kind of adventure, and leave all to providence, i. e. as to the issues and events of things.
But oh how are men turned Gods antipodes! What cannot be made sure, and God would not have to be sure, that vain man would make sure, and that which may be made sure, which God commands us to make sure, and what the Saints have made sure, this and this only, he takes upon trust, and leaves it upon: Why nots and peradventures. Thus man stands (as one saith) upon his head, ⟨p. 114⟩and shakes his heels against heaven. It is a Lamentation, and shall be for a Lamentation,