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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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Thirdly, 1Again, an universal hatred of sin is a good token that heaven is designed for thee; for hatred of sin is the negative part of holiness, and heaven is a place provided by God on purpose, that there the Saints may be as holy as they will without disturbance or reproach: fear not to think much and often of heaven; if sin be an offence to thee, if sin be an hell on earth to thee, heaven is designed for thee to be thy Paradise: 2fear not to be often solacing thy self in the contemplation of that place where sin never entered, or if it did, it was cast out as soon as ever it was conceived.
Thirdly, 1Again, an universal hatred of sin is a good token that heaven is designed for thee; for hatred of sin is the negative part of holiness, and heaven is a place provided by God on purpose, that there the Saints may be as holy as they will without disturbance or reproach: fear not to think much and often of heaven; if sin be an offence to thee, if sin be an hell on earth to thee, heaven is designed for thee to be thy Paradise: 2fear not to be often solacing thy self in the contemplation of that place where sin never entred, or if it did, it was cast out as soon as ever it was conceived.
- 1Evidence 3.
- 2Learned men conceive the sin of the apostate Angels went no further than the first ambitious thought.
Indeed it is but a fancy men have taken up, that they love happiness, while they continue to love sin; a chaste love of heaven can never consist with the love of impure lusts.