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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.
As for me, I can truly say, 1none of these things trouble me; But being by the good Providence of God, hitherto spared and kept alive, I have looked upon it as my duty, (the Death-Watch every night (in my bed) sounding in mine ears) to leave some Watch-word behind me, to awaken this sleepy and secure Generation; wherein the most, I would it might not be said, the better part of Christians have lost the sight of Heaven; and are digging hard into the Earth, to search whether possibly, they might not meet with a Summum Bonum between this and the Centre!
But oh, that before they go off the Superficies, they would look back, 1to see from whence they are fallen, and Repent, and do their first works.
But oh, that before they go off the Supersicies, they would look back, 1to see from whence they are fallen, and Repent, and do their first works.
- 1Rev. 2.5.
Behold, I am here showing you, the thing which you are so eagerly pursuing; It is risen, it is not here: Oh that you would (with Moses) get up into the Mount, from whence you might take the Prospect of that good Land, where only Blessedness dwelleth.