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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.
Hath God conferred on thee such treasures of comfort, and hast thou not one mite to bestow upon thy disconsolate Brother.
It is their infirmity sometimes, that they are not in a capacity to close with comfort when it is tendered unto them, but, with Rachel weeping for her children, they refuse to be comforted for their children, or friends, because they are not: but it is thy sin and guilt, if at any time they faint, because thou drawest not forth thy soul unto them in a way of seasonable relief, if they fall at thy door for want of bread.
It is their infirmity sometimes, that they are not in a capacity to close with comfort when it is tendred unto them, but, with Rachel weeping for her children, they refuse to be comforted for their children, or friends, because they are not: but it is thy sin and guilt, if at any time they faint, because thou drawest not forth thy soul unto them in a way of seasonable relief, if they fall at thy door for want of bread.
It is angelical employment to comfort a weary soul; a great part of their ministration is to comfort the elect in their temptations, as you may see by comparing Matth. 4.11. with Heb. 1.14. It is the work of the malignant Angels, to grieve and add to the sorrow of the Saints; and the world may know by this whose work they do, when they deride the tears, and bitter moan-makings of Gods Isaacs, 1upon which the Holy Ghost sets the black brand of persecution, he mocked, saith the Story, he persecuted, saith the Interpretation. Well Christians, do as much as ever