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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.
Their lives indeed were short; so it seemed good to the Divine Wisdom, after He had showed two such excellent pieces in the Light for a while; timely to lay them up amongst his Jewels, lest they should receive hurt or stain from a present evil world. But although their lives were short, yet verily they were precious, such, as allowing them this Abatement, ⟨image 8⟩that they were Children; neither Parents nor Standers-by could rationally have wished they had been otherwise then they were. And though there were some distance of years, yet there was the greatest parity of Persons observed between them, that though they were but the Brother's and Sister's Sons, you could not (had they been together) have distinguished them from natural Brethren, or Tins (rather) of the same Birth.
Their lives indeed were short; so it seemed good to the Divine Wisdome, after He had shewed two such excellent pieces in the Light for a while; timely to lay them up amongst his Jewels, lest they should receive hurt or stain from a present evil world. But although their lives were short, yet verily they were precious, such, as allowing them this Abatement, ⟨image 8⟩that they were Children; neither Parents nor Standers-by could rationally have wished they had been otherwise then they were. And though there were some distance of years, yet there was the greatest parity of Persons observed between them, that though they were but the Brother's and Sister's Sons, you could not (had they been together) have distinguished them from natural Brethren, or Tynnes (rather) of the same Birth.
For Elegance of Person, Loveliness of Countenance, Solidness of Judgment, Acuteness of Wit, Tenaciousness of Memory, Sweetness of Disposition, Universal Innocence, and Modesty in behaviour; Obedience to Parents (Next or Remote) Submission to Governors, Observance to Superiors, Love to Equals, ⟨image 8⟩