A35583:511
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.
But now behold, in opposition to all these acceptations, it is raised a spiritual body; not in regard of the substance of it, as if it were turned into a Spirit; but
1. Because animated and acted by the Soul now in its glorified capacity, made perfect with all heavenly qualifications, and so Spiritualized in all its faculties and operations, 1that it is called no more by the name of a Soul, but of a Spirit; To the conduct and motions whereof, the body NOW shall yield absolute and immutable obedience and conformity. Here, the Soul depends (as it were) upon the body: 2because, though the body be acted by the Soul, yet the Soul acts according to the temperament of the body, and the disposition of the Organs.
- 1Heb. 12.23. The Spirits of just men, made perfect.
- 2Anima sequitur temperamentum Corporis.
The difference (if we take notice of it) between men and men in respect of Wisdom, and judgment, and other natural excellencies, 1ariseth not from any disparity that is between their Souls; for all Souls are of a Size: the Soul of a Fool is as perfect as the Soul of a Wise man. But the difference ariseth from the Crasis and Complexion of the body, which many times puts Yokes and Manacles upon the Soul; so that (at the best) it is but as a close Prison, or dark Lant-horn, which obstructs and restrains the more noble and liberal operations of the Soul; and pen's in those beams of light, which (if within more transparent Walls) would send forth a greater lustre to enlighten the world.