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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.
What though the Scripture and the Promises do abound with consolation, if we be ignorant and unacquainted with the variety, nature and use of these heavenly Ingredients? they signify no more to us, than for a man to be in an Apothecaries shop, fraught with the richest Drugs, but he knows not the boxes where they are laid, nor the virtue of them; he and his friends may dye in a Fit, and miscarry in the midst of all those Preservatives; or if he venture on them, he may (peradventure) take poison instead of Cordials. Wherefore study the Promises, and in studying of them, be careful to refer them to their distinct heads: Make your selves Catalogues of Promises, that refer to several soul distresses and exigencies; and do as Apothecaries, 1write their titles over their Heads: Promises for pardon; Promises for power against corruption; Promises for comfort; prison Promises; sick-bed Promises; Promises relating to the loss ⟨p. 164⟩of gracious Relations, &c. I say, be careful skilfully to sort your Promises, that you may know whither to go, when you repair to the Scriptures, and may not administer mistaken Ingredients, Corrosives instead of Cordials, as Job's friends did; nor Cordials instead of Corrosives, as the generality of ignorant Christians do.
What though the Scripture and the Promises do abound with consolation, if we be ignorant and unacquainted with the variety, nature and use of these heavenly Ingredients? they signifie no more to us, than for a man to be in an Apothecaries shop, fraught with the richest Drugs, but he knows not the boxes where they are laid, nor the vertue of them; he and his friends may dye in a Fit, and miscarry in the midst of all those Preservatives; or if he venture on them, he may (peradventure) take poyson instead of Cordials. Wherefore study the Promises, and in studying of them, be careful to refer them to their distinct heads: Make your selves Catalogues of Promises, that refer to several soul distresses and exigencies; and do as Apothecaries, 1write their titles over their Heads: Promises for pardon; Promises for power against corruption; Promises for comfort; prison Promises; sick-bed Promises; Promises relating to the loss ⟨p. 164⟩