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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.
The very Course of Providence shows it. The Godly are not the happiest in this world; 1If in this life only (says the holy Apostle) we had hope in Christ, we were of all men most miserable. Virtue hath not a full reward, nor Vice sufficient punishment in this life. Dives the Representative of the Voluptuous world, flowed in ease and pleasure; while Lazarus, a godly man, afflicted with pain and hunger, was glad to dine with his Dogs at the door. The Dogs were both his Almoners and his Chirurgeons. Things must not go after this rate for ever. Sooner or later, a man shall say, i. e. He that is no more than a man; that hath no better eye in his head, than the eye of Sense and Reason, shall be convinced of this, and compelled to confess of a truth, There is a reward for the Righteous: Verily, he is a God that judgeth the Earth.
The very Course of Providence shews it. The Godly are not the happiest in this world; 1If in this life only (says the holy Apostle) we had hope in Christ, we were of all men most miscrable. Vertue hath not a full reward, nor Vice sufficient punishment in this life. Dives the Representative of the Voluptuous world, flowed in ease and pleasure; while Lazarus, a godly man, afflicted with pain and hunger, was glad to dine with his Dogs at the dore. The Dogs were both his Almoners and his Chirurgeons. Things must not go after this rate for ever. Sooner or later, a man shall say, i. e. He that is no more than a man; that hath no better eye in his head, than the eye of Sense and Reason, shall be convinced of this, and compelled to confess of a truth, There is a reward for the Righteous: Verily, he is a God that judgeth the Earth.
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