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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.
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.
Lastly, It may teach us how to prize Christ, Ʋse 6 that triumphant Grace, a Grace that hath eternity stampt 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.
I have finished, I cannot say perfected, the main work intended, seil. the opening of the ten words, or Arguments of Comfort here laid down in this model or platform by the Holy Ghost, as so many sovereign Cordials to revive disconsolate and fainting Christians over the death of their hopeful Relations, with the several improvements ⟨p. 144⟩which each word (by it self) may afford unto us.
I have finished, I cannot say perfected, the main work intended, seil. the opening of the ten words, or Arguments of Comfort here laid down in this model or platform by the Holy Ghost, as so many soveraign Cordials to revive disconsolate and fainting Christians over the death of their hopeful Relations, with the several improvements ⟨p. 144⟩which each word (by it self) may afford unto us.