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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.
TO help the Weaker sort of Christians, in the understanding of this more dark and difficult Context, which containeth the Description of our Lords last coming; and to quicken the more slow and drowsy Spirits to a greater vigour in the pursuit of the Glory which is to be Revealed at that Coming; have I (not without the importunity of divers Friends, (sensible of their need of the meanest helps) put my self upon the Publishing of these more private Essays, Calculated only for the use of mine own Family.
TO help the Weaker sort of Christians, in the understanding of this more dark and difficult Context, which containeth the Description of our Lords last coming; and to quicken the more slow and drowsie Spirits to a greater vigour in the pursuit of the Glory which is to be Revealed at that Coming; have I (not without the importunity of divers Friends, (sensible of their need of the meanest helps) put my self upon the Publishing of these more private Essaies, Calculated only for the use of mine own Family.
Yet since they may (by the blessing of God) be of a larger Influence; 1and knowing that Good, is so much the more Good by how much it is a more diffusive Good, I chose rather to adventure my ⟨image 14⟩name, than be guilty of Sacrilege, in not Casting in my Mite into the Public Treasury of the Church's Service. I must confess, had I consulted a Reputation to my self, I could never have made choice of a more improper Season; wherein, endless Opinions and Interests do inevitably expose a man that will be writing to a necessity of Censure; (not the most gentle Condemnation of the times:) and the unskilfulness & inadvertency of Mechanic Artists, whom the Learned Montacute, late Bishop of Norwich justly calleth,
Yet since they may (by the blessing of God) be of a larger Influence; 1and knowing that Good, is so much the more Good by how much it is a more diffusive Good, I chose rather to adventure my