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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.
For the first of these,
The words of Comfort laid down by the Apostle in this model, 1may be reduced unto 10 Heads, some of them very comprehensive, and all of them like mother of Pearl (dissolved) exceeding Cordial and Restorative.
- 110 Words of Comfort.
The first word of Comfort is this, 1namely, That our precious Relations, over whose departure we stand mourning and weeping, are but fallen asleep; I would not have you ignorant, Brethren, concerning them which are asleep. We may say of departed Saints, as our Saviour said concerning the Damsel, Math. 9.24. They are not dead but sleep: the same phrase he also used to his Disciples concerning Lazarus, 2our Friend Lazarus sleepeth. A notion which the Disciples at first understood not, because their understandings were not yet enlightened; they dreamed of a natural sleep saith the Text; of taking Rest in sleep. And yet, as men in their sleep do sometimes dream true, so did they in this dream of theirs, speak truer than they were aware of; they said, Lord, if he sleeps, he shall do well; it is true indeed, the Saints of God do but sleep, when they lye down in the Grave; that, which we call death (in such) is not death indeed; It is but the Image of Death, the shadow and metaphor of death, deaths younger Brother; a mere sleep, and no more. The Holy Ghost, who best knoweth what things be, hath phrased it so, and that, not so little as twenty times in Scripture, to show, that it was not a sudden expression, incautelously dropped from the Pen of any one of the Secretaries of Holy Writ; but the true, proper,