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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.
1. 1Sorrow not as men without hope, but comfort one another.] Obs. There is a sorrow for departed friends, which God condemns not. We are forbid an hopeless sorrow, v. 13. but simply to mourn for the loss of our gracious Relations we are no where forbidden. He that hath wrapped up natural affections in our bowels, doth not prohibit the due and moderate exercise of them. Those [Greek or Hebrew], persons without natural affections are in the black Roll amongst the most ulcerous and excrescent part of mankind: To be without natural affections is to do violence against Nature her self, and to violate the law of humanity. Covenant breakers without natural affection] are monsters, not men. Christ himself, who knew no sin, yet being acquainted with all our griefs, even had this kind of sorrow for the dead, John 11.35. Jesus wept, and his tears do here instruct us in our duty. Holy Paul blots his Epistle to the Ephesians with his tears for Epaphroditus, Lest (saith he) I should have sorrow upon sorrow; he was sorrowful for his sickness, had he dyed there would have been another flood of tears, sorrow upon sorrow. Where mention is made of the death of public persons, there public lamentations for them is mentioned also: The Spirit of God doth no where reprove those tears, but rather puts a value upon them as so many pearls. As in the mourning for Jacob, Gen. 50.11. for Josiah, 2 Chron. 35.24. for Samuel, 1 Sam. 25.1. for Stephen, Acts 8.2. Its reckoned amongst Gods thunderbolts, 2Their widows made no lamentation. The removal of ⟨p. 145⟩Gods peace from a people, and prohibition to mourn for their dead, are twin-judgments, or one the birth of another: Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people. Tears are like wine, you may pour them out, but take heed of excess; Be not drunk with tears, wherein is excess: you may weep, but as those that weep not; you may mourn, but not as others, which have no hope: