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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.
Thus are these three Summons distinct, and each of them louder and shriller than the former. And it may allude to the manner of the calling together of the Jews to their public worship; and that (possibly) typical to this; signifying thus much to the world, that like as their Assemblies were summoned by the sound of Trumpets; so the last and solemn day of judgment, that great general Assembly of the Living and the Dead, shall be summoned together by the sound of Trumpets from Heaven; the vastest and most universal Assembly that ever was beheld by the eye of Creature.
Thus are these three Summons distinct, and each of them lowder and shriller than the former. And it may allude to the manner of the calling together of the Jews to their publick worship; and that (possibly) typical to this; signifying thus much to the world, that like as their Assemblies were summoned by the sound of Trumpets; so the last and solemn day of judgment, that great general Assembly of the Living and the Dead, shall be summoned together by the sound of Trumpets from Heaven; the vastest and most universal Assembly that ever was beheld by the eye of Creature.
But a clearer Type and Prophecy hereof seems to be that at the giving of the Law, when Christ came down on Mount Sinai, to give the Law, it was in a very glorious manner, sc. with Thunder and Lightnings, 1and a thick Cloud upon the Mount, with the voice of the Trumpet exceeding loud, &c.
But a clearer Type and Prophecy hereof seems to be that at the giving of the Law, when Christ came down on Mount Sinai, to give the Law, it was in a very glorious manner, sc. with Thunder and Lightnings, 1and a thick Cloud upon the Mount, with the voyce of the Trumpet exceeding loud, &c.