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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.
In the fourth place, 1here you may see the absolute and indispensable necessity of faith, without which, all the choicest consolations, and richest cordials the Word can afford, are but so much water of life in a dead mans mouth, or as Elisha's Staff upon the face of the dead Child, 2which ⟨p. 149⟩causeth neither voice nor motion: 3The just shall live by faith; an unbelieving man is but a dead man; for as faith is the first principle of spiritual life, so it is the constant medium, whereby the spiritual fuel and restoratives of that life are brought in, and made vital to the soul, The life I now live in the flesh, I live it by the faith of the Son of God. Christs flesh is meat indeed, and his blood is drink indeed, but it is to faith only, it is not meat indeed, if there be not faith indeed; He that cometh to me shall never hunger: What's that? He that believeth on me shall never thirst. The Word of God is the power of God to salvation, 4but it is to them only who believe. God hath provided a cup of consolation for his fainting people in their swooning fits, but it is the hand of faith that must take it, and the mouth of faith only that can drink it. The unbeliever is an unhappy man, nothing can do him good; 5The word doth not profit, not being mixed with faith. The body and blood of Christ proves poison instead of divine nutriment, because it is not received by faith: This is the will of him that sent me (saith our Lord) that he that believeth on me may have everlasting life: Divine Cordials so magisterial, that they are able (as it were) to put life into a dead man: give them to an unbeliever, they signify no more than water in the shoes: Oh get faith, Saints, act your faith, or else ye are undone. Great notions are but small comforts to a natural man, and the reason is, because they are above him: nothing can act above its principle, you can never comfort a Swine with arguments of reason; no more can ye comfort a carnal heart with heavenly consolations; the reason is,