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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.
Thou art a man, or woman of sorrows, it were thy wisdom, as well as thy duty, to look out for some spiritual Cordials, and not to reject soul refreshment when it is offered; say not to thy comforters, with the Prophet Isaiah, Look away from me, 1I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, and thy case will not bear it: He was weeping the Churches tears, thou art poring over a private personal trial, consider in so doing, thou art but preparing new causes of sorrow for thine own soul, and when thou hast done sorrowing for thy loss, thou wilt begin anew to sorrow for thy sin in so sorrowing. Hark soul, Ever be with the Lord. Is not there a word, that may wipe away all tears from thine eyes, even on this side heaven!
Thou art a man, or woman of sorrows, it were thy wisdom, as well as thy duty, to look out for some spiritual Cordials, and not to reject soul refreshment when it is offered; say not to thy comforters, with the Prophet Isaiah, Look away from me, 1I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, and thy case will not bear it: He was weeping the Churches tears, thou art poring over a private personal trial, consider in so doing, thou art but preparing new causes of sorrow for thine own soul, and when thou hast done sorrowing for thy loss, thou wilt begin anew to sorrow for thy sin in so sorrowing. Heark soul, Ever be with the Lord. Is not there a word, that may wipe away all tears from thine eyes, even on this side heaven!
In the next place, 1hence we gather this sad truth, scil. That there is not a word of comfort belonging to wicked men when they die, nor while they live in sin. Comfort one another; none other but one another; not the ungodly; they and their parasites may flatter themselves and one another; but there is not one word of comfort belonging to them: of all those Rivers of pleasures that are at Gods right hand not one drop for a Dives. Of all those treasures of glory not one mite for an Esau. Indeed pity belongs to wicked men, and reproof belongs to them, Reprove them rather,