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…

Upon this foundation stands the absolute impossibility that sin, the least sin, the least circumstance of sin, should be so much as once mentioned by the Judg, in the process of that judicial trial, unless it be in a way of Absolution, and so sin shall be mentioned ⟨p. 136⟩indeed, ¹but in order to the magnifying of their Pardon and Absolution. Their sins may then be said to be blotted out in a two-fold respect.

Upon this foundation stands the absolute impossibility that sin, the least sin, the least circumstance of sin, should be so much as once mentioned by the Judg, in the process of that judicial tryal, unless it be in a way of Absolution, and so sin shall be mentioned ⟨p. 136⟩indeed, ¹but in order to the magnifying of their Pardon and Absolution. Their sins may then be said to be blotted out in a two-fold respect.

1. 1The Saints Absolved of Sin in the day of Judgment, in what sense? 1 In their own Conscience.The Saints Absolved of Sin in the day of Iudgment, in what sence? 1 In their own Conscience.

First: Because the Saints shall then be fully and finally Absolved in their own Consciences: It is true, there be some of the Saints even in this life, to whose Consciences the Spirit of God doth evidence and seal up Remission of sin; who are not only safe but sure; and possess not only the blessedness of a pardoned estate, but the comfort and assurance of that blessedness: §1nevertheless, 1. Not all the Saints; 2. Nor any, at all times; 3. Nor always in the same degree: as they have their lucida intervalla, so they have also (and more frequently) their dark times, their Eclipses as well as their Transfigurations; and no wonder, since the Sun of Righteousness himself suffered an Eclipse upon the Cross so dreadful, as forced the great Master of Astrology in Egypt to cry out, Either the God of Nature suffers,