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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.
I shall not follow the Analogy that is between Death and Sleep, in the latitude of it, sufficient to our purpose it will be, to take notice of two main properties of Death, which do carry in them a lively resemblance of sleep.
The first is, 1That sleep is nothing else but the binding up of the senses for a little time; a locking up of the Doors, and shutting of the Windows of the body for a season, that so nature may take the sweeter Rest and Repose; being freed from all disturbance and distractions: Sleep is but a mere Parenthesis to the Labours and Travels of this present life.
The first is, 1That sleep is nothing else but the binding up of the senses for a little time; a locking up of the Doores, and shutting of the Windows of the body for a season, that so nature may take the sweeter Rest and Repose; being freed from all disturbance and distractions: Sleep is but a meer Paerenthesis to the Labours and Travels of this present life.
- 1Is•. Ligath su•••.
Secondly, Sleep is but a partial privation, a privation of the Act only, not of the Habit of Reason. They that sleep in the Night, do awake again in the Morning, then there is a regress or return of the habit to its Act again: The Soul returneth to the discharge of all her Offices again: In the internal faculties; to the act of Judging, and discourse in the Intellect; to recalling things for the present, and recording things for future use in the memory; It returns to its Empire and command in the will, to its judicature in the Conscience, Excusing, Accusing, Condemning, Et sic in caeteris: So likewise the soul returns again to the execution of all her functions in the external senses; to seeing in the eye, to hearing in the ear, to tasting in the palate; as also to working in the hands, to walking in the feet, and so in the rest. In a word, the whole man is Redivivus, restored again to its self as it were by a new