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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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This will argue a child-like spirit, Children mind their inheritance; absent Children long to be at home at their Fathers house, they are often there in their thoughts and wishes: so the Saints, We groan within our selves, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven— and, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
This will argue a child-like spirit, Children mind their inheritance; absent Children long to be at home at their Fathers house, they are often there in their thoughts and wishes: so the Saints, We groan within our selves, desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from heaven— and, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
Secondly, 1Especially if the holiness of heaven do kindle ⟨p. 120⟩those desires in us more than the happiness, when a poor foul can truly say, I should not account it an heaven, were it not that it is a land of holiness, a land flowing with milk and honey of pure and immaculate joys, that there the beauty of holiness shines forth with unconceivable lustre and glory, and there (saith the soul) I shall be in some degree like my God, glorious in holiness; this is not only an evidence of heaven, but heaven it self.
Secondly, 1Especially if the holiness of heaven do kindle ⟨p. 120⟩those desires in us more than the happiness, when a poor foul can truly say, I should not account it an heaven, were it not that it is a land of holiness, a land flowing with milk and honey of pure and immaculate joyes, that there the beauty of holiness shines forth with unconceivable lustre and glory, and there (saith the soul) I shall be in some degree like my God, glorious in holiness; this is not only an evidence of heaven, but heaven it self.