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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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Object. But how shall I know whether such a whisper of peace may be (indeed) the voice of God, or a delusion of Satan?
Object. But how shall I know whether such a whisper of peace may be (indeed) the voice of God, or a delusion of Saan?
Answ. For answer briefly.
1. Such breathings of God upon the soul do usually carry their own evidence with them; if God say, I am thy salvation, the irradiation carrieth a satisfying light with it; the Sun needeth no other luminary to comment upon its own light but its own; nor the Spirit of God any other manifestation of its own presence but it self.
2. We say, though it want no other manifestation, it hath other; the effects (as Christ said of his miracles, John 5.36.) and impressions of such whispers and breathings upon the soul, will witness of them whence they come; Springs will rise as high as they fall, that which cometh from heaven will carry up the soul to heaven. Do therefore such hints and intimations of love and favour