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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.
Gods compassions over his mourners are great, and therefore his consolations are not small. Though God would have his people deeply humbled and tried to the quick, yet he would not have their spirits sink under the temptation; and therefore, when he observes them to begin to faint, he ceaseth contending with them, and begins his comforting work for the iniquity of his covetousness, 1I smote him, and was wrath, but when God saw that would do no good, he trieth another course, I will restore comforts to him. Just as when a Parent is correcting a Child, and the Child cries, and swoons, presently away goes the rod, and the strong-water-bottle is snatched up, and applied to the mouth of the Child; so compassionately dealeth God with his fainting Children.
Gods compassions over his mourners are great, and therefore his consolations are not small. Though God would have his people deeply humbled and tried to the quick, yet he would not have their spirits sink under the temptation; and therefore, when he observes them to begin to faint, he ceaseth contending with them, and begins his comforting work for the iniquity of his covetousness, 1I smote him, and was wrath, but when God saw that would do no good, he trieth another course, I will restore comforts to him. Just as when a Parent is correcting a Child, and the Child cryes, and swoons, presently away goes the rod, and the strong-water-bottle is snatcht up, and applied to the mouth of the Child; so compassionately dealeth God with his fainting Children.
It is a wonderful expression which God useth towards Ephraim, Jer. 31.20. My bowels are troubled for him. Ephraim saith, I smote upon my thigh, and presently God smites upon his heart, and cries out, My bowels are troubled for him, I will have mercy upon him: O ineffable sympathy! answerable whereunto, God hath a cup of consolation prepared in his hand, which he putteth to their mouths, and bids drink, yea, drink abundantly of it, till they forget their sorrows, even that overflowing cup, Fullness of joy and pleasures for ever at his right hand. Ever with the Lord.