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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the fourth place: This may serve as a preservative to the people of God to keep them from fainting and falling away in time of sufferings, and persecution for righteousness sake; after a moments sufferings they shall have eternity of rest, they shall ever be with the Lord, and thenceforth there shall be no more sufferings nor sorrow: all tears shall be wiped from their eyes, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, once housed in heaven, and they are safe for ever: Persecutors, to be sure, will not follow them thither, but they shall be looked up in hell for ever, bound in chains of everlasting darkness for their fury against the people of God, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
In the fourth place: This may serve as a preservative to the people of God to keep them from fainting and falling away in time of sufferings, and persecution for righteousness sake; after a moments sufferings they shall have eternity of rest, they shall ever be with the Lord, and thenceforth there shall be no more sufferings nor sorrow: all tears shall be wiped from their eyes, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, once hous'd in heaven, and they are safe for ever: Persecutors, to be sure, will not follow them thither, but they shall be looked up in hell for ever, bound in chains of everlasting darkness for their fury against the people of God, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Ever with the Lord; here's a short fight, but an eternal triumph, a short race, but an immarcessable crown of glory; ⟨p. 138⟩a short storm, but an eternal harbour, who would not almost be covetous and ambitious of suffering upon such gainful terms? One day with the Lord will more than pay for all the Saints sufferings, how much more this ever with the Lord? There is no proportion between a Christian his Cross and his Crown, 1if the Apostle have brought us in a true account, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Compare a Mole-hill with a Mountain, a Glow-worm with a Sun beam, a drop with the Ocean: and more disproportionable are a Saints sufferings unto his glory; here he lets drop a few tears, there he swims in a river of pleasures for evermore. To convince us of the odds, the Apostle puts both into scales, and the scales into the hand even of Reason it self, see (saith he) how infinitely the reward preponderates the sufferings: