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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.
It is raised in Incorruption: When Christ hath fetched the body out of the Grave, and set it upon its feet again, there shall not be the least smell or savour of Mortality upon it; as there was no smell of the fire upon the Raiment of the three Children, when they came out of the fiery Furnace. 1All the Principles of Corruption and Mortality shall be put off and lest, together with the Grave-Clothes, in the Sepulchre. The body (as some think) shall give forth a sweet fragrant smell, like the Flowers of Paradise: it shall be an Angelified body, ⟨p. 90⟩Flesh Immortalized; subject to no more Corruption than the Soul it self. There shall be no more Death, nor fear of Death; nor possibility of Death for ever.
It is raised in Incorruption: When Christ hath fetcht the body out of the Grave, and set it upon its feet again, there shall not be the least smell or savour of Mortality upon it; as there was no smell of the fire upon the Raiment of the three Children, when they came out of the fiery Furnace. 1All the Principles of Corruption and Mortality shall be put off and lest, together with the Grave-Cloaths, in the Sepulcher. The body (as some think) shall give forth a sweet fragrant smell, like the Flowers of Paradise: it shall be an Angelified body, ⟨p. 90⟩Flesh Immortalized; subject to no more Corruption than the Soul it self. There shall be no more Death, nor fear of Death; nor possibility of Death for ever.
Secondly, It is sown in dishonour.] As soon as the Soul is enlarged from its Imprisonment; the body is presently stripped naked of all its Robes and honourable Attire, and wrapped up in a poor shroud of no other use than to hide Deformity; and, as a mean contemptible thing, it is buried under ground: Yea, sometimes, denied so much honour; it is exposed naked above ground, in the sight of the Sun, without any other Funeral, than what it may have in the bowels of the Fouls of the Heavens,