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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.
But as glorious and acceptable is this description of Christ's coming to the Saints, 1for whose sake this clause is added, as a word of Comfort, even to them that sleep in Jesus.
- 1Comfort to the Saints.
This three-fold Alarm, Shout, and Voice, and Trump, shall be no more terror or amazement to them than the roaring of Cannons, when Armies of Friends approach a Besieged City for the relief of them that are within. These sounds and rattlings, how terrible a sense soever they may impress upon the hearts and Consciences of the wicked, will be to them that sleep in Jesus as the sweetest melody that ever sounded in their ears, as the voice of Harpers harping with their Harps, to ⟨p. 85⟩awaken them out of their sweet sleep, with the sweetest Music and Harmony that ever sounded in their ears; and these shall be their Heavenly Ditties. Awake and sing, oh ye that dwell in the dust, &c. Or (as in the Gospel-Call, a little varied.) Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen Upon thee; 1for behold darkness shall cover the Earth; even (everlasting) darkness, all the wicked of the world: but the Lord shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee to all Eternity.
This three-fold Alarm, Shout, and Voyce, and Trump, shall be no more terror or amazement to them than the roaring of Cannons, when Armies of Friends approach a Beseig'd City for the relief of them that are within. These sounds and ratlings, how terrible a sense soever they may impress upon the hearts and Consciences of the wicked, will be to them that sleep in Jesus as the sweetest melody that ever sounded in their ears, as the voyce of Harpers harping with their Harps, to ⟨p. 85⟩