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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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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.
Indeed it is but a fancy men have taken up, that they love happiness, while they continue to love sin; a chast love of heaven can never consist with the love of impure lusts.
Sin is the Devils image, holiness is Gods; he loves not the beauty of holiness that would have the Devil advanced thither; If men would not have it so, why else do they give sin such free entertainment in their own bosoms, and will by no means give it a bill of divorce?
Sin is the Devils image, holiness is Gods; he loves not the beauty of holiness that would have the Devil advanced thither; If men would not have it so, why else do they give sin such free entertainment in their own bosomes, and will by no means give it a bill of divorce?
Fourthly, 1A superlative love to him that hath purchased this state for us, and us for it, is an infallible evidence of our right to it, and interest in it, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ; and a strong motive upon which gracious souls are so often in heaven by their contemplations, is, that thereby ⟨p. 121⟩an eye of faith they may behold, not the purchase only, but the purchaser, whom having not seen we love, and whom loving, we would fain see; and this is the glory of every one that is so affected; so it is expressly said, 2