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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.
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, 1or the Ravenous Beasts of the Earth. But, be the Burial never so Ignoble; the Resurrection of it shall be Glorious.2
Secondly, It is sown in dishonour.] As soon as the Soul is enlarged from its Imprisonment; the body is presently stript naked of all its Robes and honourable Attire, and wrapt 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, somtimes, 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, 1or the Ravenous Beasts of the Earth. But, be the Burial never so Ignoble; the Resurrection of it shall be Glorious.2
- 1Psal. 79.1.
- 2Second Property, Gloricu•.
It is raised in Glory. We may truly say, Solomon in all his Glory was not arrayed like one of these Children of the Resurrection; there shall be a glory put upon the Body, which shall out-shine the Sun in its brightest refulgency. And that upon a double account.