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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.
Oh how acceptable then must the Offering up of the Saints be to Jesus Christ, because thus Sanctified by the Holy-Ghost? And when Christ shall thus present his Redeemed unto Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but Holy, and without blemish: How will he rejoice over her, as the Bridegroom over his Bride? That day being, indeed, the Marriage of the Lamb: (of which anon.)1
Oh how acceptable then must the Offering up of the Saints be to Jesus Christ, because thus Sanctified by the Holy-Ghost? And when Christ shall thus present his Redeemed unto Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but Holy, and without blemish: How will he rejoyce over her, as the Bridegroom over his Bride? That day being, indeed, the Marriage of the Lamb: (of which anon.)1
Thus will the Lord Jesus, the King of glory rejoice to meet the Saints. And surely the Saints (according to their finite capacity,) will not less rejoice and triumph to meet their Lord. Oh! to meet him now, whom their Soul loved; whom in the days of their Pilgrimage (upon Earth) they often sought and could not find; sought him in Prayer, Meditation, Conference, &c. but could not find him; and when they could not find him, mourned for him, lamented after him; bedewed their cheeks with Tears; asking solicitously of every one they met, Saw ye not him, whom my Soul loveth?