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…

If we believe, that Jesus died, and rose again, &c. There is an inexhaustible ⟨p. 150⟩fullness of comfort in Christ, and in the Promises, but not one drop to be drawn forth without faith. The breasts of Scripture-consolation are full, they even drop again; but it is the mouth of faith that must suck them out: the still-born Child may as well-draw the Mothers dug, as a faithless Christian make the teats of Scripture to afford any drop of divine influence to his drooping soul; but to the believer it is cried (at least by way of accommodation) Suck ye, ¹and be satisfied with the breasts of consolation, milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of glory. A man may as well live and laugh without a soul, as have true evangelical comfort without faith, which is the bond of union between Christ and the Soul, and so being united to the fountain, ²Believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and glorious. This is that golden pipe, through which all the golden oil of grace and comfort is derived into the heart. ³The men of the world may have vast proportions of knowledge, both natural and divine, but mere knowledge is light without heat, but faith warms the heart, as they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, when he spake unto us? If I assent and consent to the glorious Doctrine of the Resurrection, knowing, with Job, that my Redeemer liveth, &c. I can (in that) triumph over all occurrent evils, over the Grave it self, though it swallow up my dearest Relations: If I believe not, I am like a thirsty man at a well without a bucket, where I may sooner drown my self than quench my thirst. Oh get the bucket of Faith, and then with joy may ye draw water out of these wells of salvation, These words.

If we believe, that Jesus died, and rose again, &c. There is an inexhaustible ⟨p. 150⟩fulness of comfort in Christ, and in the Promises, but not one drop to be drawn forth without faith. The breasts of Scripture-consolation are full, they even drop again; but it is the mouth of faith that must suck them out: the still-born Child may as well-draw the Mothers dug, as a faithless Christian make the teats of Scripture to afford any drop of divine influence to his drooping soul; but to the believer it is cried (at least by way of accommodation) Suck ye,