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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.
Thus weak he is in his Strength: what is he in his Weakness? So feeble he is when he stands: how feeble, when he is fallen, in sickness, in his old decrepit age, his second Infancy? Read and ponder on that graphical description which the Holy Ghost hath drawn of him, 1Eccles. 12. We will pick out but some of those lively Characters, ver. 3. The Keepers of the House tremble; the Arms and Hands, the principal instruments in repelling evil from the body; they tremble with Palsies and shakings.
The Strong men bow themselves] the legs and thighs which were wont to carry the body upright, with strength and vigour; now falter and shrink under their weight, and buckle together for very debility; the ligaments of nature being now untied.
The Strong men bow themselves] the leggs and thighs which were wont to carry the body upright, with strength and vigour; now faulter and shrink under their weight, and buckle together for very debility; the ligaments of nature being now untied.
The Grinders cease because they are few] the Teeth that were wont to grind the Food, and prepare it for the Stomach, they cease from their function, because but few, and having lost their keenness.
The Grinders cease because they are few] the Teeth that were wont to grinde the Food, and prepare it for the Stomach, they cease from their function, because but few, and having lost their kenness.