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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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I have done with this third Help or Means to attain assurance, I come to the fourth, and shall more briefly dispatch them that remain.
A fourth Help to get assurance is this, 1Make much of the Spirit; surely it concerns us highly to be very tender of the Spirit, for if both kinds of assurance be the fruit of the Spirit, we had need to hear (as it were) founding in our ears, Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, 2whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption; whereby ye are sealed, i. e. whose office it is to seal up believers. Grieve him not.
- 14. Help. Be very tender of the Spirit.
- 2Ephes, 4.30.
Malicious sins despise the Holy Ghost, Heb. 10.29. Wilful sins vex the Spirit, Isai. 63 10. Obstinate going on in sin, resists the Holy Ghost, Acts 7.51. Immersing our selves in pleasures and profits of this present world, doth quench the Spirit, 1 Thess. 5.19. But the least sins (convinced of) grieve the Spirit. He is an holy Spirit, and therefore sin must needs grieve him, sin, quâ sin, being a pure contrariety to his holy nature.