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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.
Secondly, Hence we learn, 1There is another work or duty incumbent on Christians, under the loss of gracious Relations, Then only to mourn for them, namely, to enquire, yea, 2(with Benhadad's servants) diligently to observe what words of comfort do fall from the lips of Scripture, and hastily to catch at them: q. d. Comfort another with these words: yea, Lord! with these words do thou comfort thy servant!
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- 21 King. 20.33
We are usually either senseless under, or swallowed up with great losses; either our bowels, are made of iron, or they melt like wax, and we faint away: Vehement sorrow is like raging fire, that turns every thing into its own nature. It's thy work therefore to study recruits, as well as to pore upon thy losses, to ballast thy soul with divine comforts: If I go not away the Comforter cannot come: 1Many times the best of our earthly enjoyments stand between us and our heavenly consolations: But if I go away I will send him unto you. It is good to resolve with our selves, be my loss in this world never so great, it is capable of a reparation. For certainly, if the loss of Christ in his bodily presence were to be repaired, there is nothing under the whole heaven, the loss whereof we can sustain, but may much easilier be made up with advantage, to be sure the presence of the Comforter is able to do it with an infinite overplus. It is thy wisdom therefore to balance thy soul with divine comforts; as afflictions abound, run ⟨p. 146⟩to thy Cordial, these words, that thy consolations may abound also: if the affliction scale be heavier than the consolation scale, thou wilt certainly sink in thy spirit, and then thy burden will break thy back: