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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.
Behold, if such were the brightness of Moses his face, at the giving of the Law, that the Israelites were not able to bear it; They were afraid (saith the Text) to come nigh him: If St. Stephens Countenance did shine as the face of an Angel, when he stood holding up his hand at the bar of his Unrighteous Judges, in the posture of a Malefactor! what think we is the lustre and brightness which shines forth from the glorified body of the Lord Jesus, 1who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who only hath immortality, 2dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see? Behold, in his transfiguration, 3his Face did shine as the Sun, and his Raiment was white as Snow! What ravishing beams of light and glory do Moses, and Elijah, and Peter, now see sparkling from his glorified Person exalted to the right hand of the Majesty on high, i. e. on the highest Throne of the highest Majesty ⟨p. 99⟩in the Court of Heaven: 4Surely the glorified body of Christ doth as far surpass the Sun in brightness, as the Sun surpasseth a clod of Earth; and yet to this Exemplar of glory, must the bodies of the Saints be conformed in the Resurrection! Surely, glorious things are spoken of the Resurrection: So great, so glorious, that, had not the Spirit of God spoken them before, it had been daring presumption, to have reported or believed it.
Behold, if such were the brightness of Moses his face, at the giving of the Law, that the Israelites were not able to bear it; They were afraid (saith the Text) to come nigh him: If St. Stephens Countenance did shine as the face of an Angel, when he stood holding up his hand at the bar of his Unrighteous Judges, in the posture of a Malefactor! what think we is the lustre and brightness which shines forth from the glorified body of the Lord Jesus, 1who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who only hath immortality,