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…

It is true, the Devil and the World have their counterfeit Cordials, their gilded Pills and Plasters, which, like Quacksalvers, make quick Cures, but they never heal to the bottom; they may for a time stupefy the sense, but they do not mortify sensuality, ease the smart, but not cleanse the wound. Saul, when the evil Spirit was upon him, calls for a Fiddle, and when God hath forsaken him, he goes to the Witch, as if, because God would not answer him, the Devil should: Most people have learned a way of their own, some to drink down their sorrow, and sleep out the sense of those breaches, which God hath made upon their Relations, or in a crowd of worldly business can lose their sorrows, yea, many carnal Professors ⟨p. 155⟩there are, when they have disturbed their peace, and wounded their Consciences, can make a shift to lick themselves whole with their duties, a few Pater-nosters, Church-absolution, a morsel of Sacramental bread, and a drop of the Sacramental cup will make them as well as ever, though that which stilleth conscience never killeth corruptions, what a world of souls doth Satan gain by such cures, Eating and drinking damnation to themselves, 1 Cor. 11.30.

It is true, the Devil and the World have their counterfeit Cordials, their guilded Pills and Plaisters, which, like Quacksalvers, make quick Cures, but they never heal to the bottom; they may for a time stupifie the sense, but they do not mortifie sensuality, ease the smart, but not cleanse the wound. Saul, when the evil Spirit was upon him, calls for a Fiddle, and when God hath forsaken him, he goes to the Witch, as if, because God would not answer him, the Devil should: Most people have learn'd a way of their own, some to drink down their sorrow, and sleep out the sense of those breaches, which God hath made upon their Relations, or in a crowd of worldly business can lose their sorrows, yea, many carnal Professours ⟨p. 155⟩there are, when they have disturbed their peace, and wounded their Consciences, can make a shift to lick themselves whole with their duties, a few Pater-nosters, Church-absolution, a morsel of Sacramental bread, and a drop of the Sacramental cup will make them as well as ever, though that which stilleth conscience never killeth corruptions, what a world of souls doth Satan gain by such cures, Eating and drinking damnation to themselves,