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…

Be of good cheer, Believers thou shalt dye but once, and then ever be with the Lord, with whom is the fountain of life; life bubbling up unto all eternity: The damned are always dying, repeating death every moment, their flames only serve them to read over the black lines of death, which have neither Full-point or Comma: But death enters not into the borders of the heavenly Canaan; they say, there is no Spider in Ireland, it is certain, there is no putrid matter in heaven to breed the vermin of mortality; in heaven only death cannot live, when thou dyest, thou shalt rise again, and dye no more, but death shall dye, and shall rise no more; thy grave shall be the eternal grave of death: It is appointed for all men once to dye, and for believers to dye but once. Do but clear up thine interest in the death of Christ, and thou mayest bid farewell to the fear of death for ever, for the worst thing that death can do to thee, is thee best thing that can be done for thee, even to guide thy poor straying soul home to thy Fathers house, and so shalt thou ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Be of good chear, Believers thou shalt dye but once, and then ever be with the Lord, with whom is the fountain of life; life bubbling up unto all eternity: The damned are alwayes dying, repeating death every moment, their flames only serve them to read over the black lines of death, which have neither Full-point or Comma: But death enters not into the borders of the heavenly Canaan; they say, there is no Spider in Ireland, it is certain, there is no putrid matter in heaven to breed the vermin of mortality; in heaven only death cannot live, when thou dyest, thou shalt rise again, and dye no more, but death shall dye, and shall rise no more; thy grave shall be the eternal grave of death: It is appointed for all men once to dye, and for believers to dye but once. Do but clear up thine interest in the death of Christ, and thou mayest bid farewell to the fear of death for ever, for the worst thing that death can do to thee, is thee best thing that can be done for thee, even to guide thy poor straying soul home to thy Fathers house, and so shalt thou ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Lastly, It may teach us how to prize Christ, Use 6 that triumphant Grace, a Grace that hath eternity stamped upon it, it out-lives Faith; for faith gives way to vision, and it doth out-last hope, for hope is swallowed up in fruition, what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? Whether there be prophesies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away, but charity never fails, but as long as God lives it lives, for God is love, and they that love dwell in God, and God in them.