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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.
First, it is sown in Corruption; it is raised in Incorruption. 1It is sown in Corruption. Behold, the body is Corruptible, whiles it liveth; a Nursery of such Seeds and Principles, as will inevitably destroy it self: a Spittal of all manner of Diseases: but when it is dead, it is Corruption it self: Infirmity resolved into Rottenness and Deformity; the fondest Relation who (while living) laid it in the Bosom, cannot now endure it in the sight: Give me a Burying place (said Abraham of his beloved Sarah) that I may Bury my dead out of my sight: 2It is now the picture of all ghastly Loathsomeness.
First, it is sown in Corruption; it is raised in Incorruption. 1It is sowen in Corruption. Behold, the body is Corruptible, whiles it liveth; a Nursery of such Seeds and Principles, as will inevitably destroy it self: a Spittal of all manner of Diseases: but when it is dead, it is Corruption it self: Infirmity resolved into Rottenness and Deformity; the fondest Relation who (while living) layed it in the Bosom, cannot now endure it in the sight: Give me a Burying place (said Abraham of his beloved Sarah) that I may Bury my dead out of my sight: 2It is now the picture of all ghastly Loathsomness.
- 11. Property Incorruptible.
- 2Gen. 23 4.
But Oh, how unlike it self, shall it be in the Resurrection!