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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.
If any Stander-by shall judg (possibly) that my affection hath transported my Charity into their excess; my Apology is this, that I had rather be guilty of an Excess in Charity, than a Defect in thankfulness. I know we cannot expect such rational accounts of Grace in Children, as may be found in Adult Saints, but that that doxology, out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings, thou hast ordained strength, Psal. 8.2. doth not exclude Children, though not confine the meaning of the words so narrow; is the judgment of the old St. Ignatius, who from those Scripture instances of Samuel, Josiah, and others, denieth not but that the Spirit of God working in young ones, doth many times ⟨image 11⟩give out early discoveries of the Grace of the Covenant, when Elder Persons [Greek or Hebrew] (Ignat. Epist. ad Magn.) do only carry their Grey-hairs as a badge of their Ingratitude to God.
If any Stander-by shall judg (possibly) that my affection hath transported my Charity into their excess; my Apology is this, that I had rather be guilty of an Excess in Charity, than a Defect in thankfulness. I know we cannot expect such rational accounts of Grace in Children, as may be found in Adult Saints, but that that doxologie, out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings, thou hast ordeined strength, Psal. 8.2. doth not exclude Children, though not confine the meaning of the words so narrow; is the judgment of the old St. Ignatius, who from those Scripture instances of Samuel, Josiah, and others, denieth not but that the Spirit of God working in young ones, doth many times ⟨image 11⟩give out early discoveries of the Grace of the Covenant, when Elder Persons 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (Ignat. Epist. ad Magn.) do only carry their Gray-haires as a badg of their Ingratitude to God.