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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
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Sol. And is that the cause of your apathy and flatness of spirits to these heavenly fruitions? Truly, this very uncertainty should even startle and affright us into an earnest contention to make heaven sure; so infinite a weight of glory, and we not ascertained of our interest upon some good Scripture-evidence, is enough to make us to forget to eat our meat, enough to break our sleep, and to keep our eyes waking all the night long, and to make us take little comfort in the present comforts we possess.
Quest. You will surely ask then, 1What are the Evidences?
- 1Evidences of Heaven.
Answ. 1. Why, 1truly this one thing would amount to an evidence (and not the least evidence) viz. Active endeavour to assure our selves of a share in this Inheritance of the Saints; this would argue an high appreciation of this estate in the practical judgment, as most incomparably and absolutely eligible; this is the very language of an heaven-born-soul, What have I to count upon but my treasure which is in heaven? What business have I on earth comparable to this, to ensure my portion in heaven? for this cause I was born, and for this end I came into the world; the whole earth, in comparison of heaven, is but a dunghill, Cabul, 2(as Hiram called the Cities which Solomon gave him) dirty or displeasing.
Answ. 1. Why,