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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.
Secondly, And then again, as they that sleep in the night, do awake in the morning; so shall the Saints of God do: This heaviness may endure for a night, (this night of mortality:) but joy cometh in the morning: In the morning of the Resurrection they shall awake again; 1it will not be an everlasting night, an endless sleep, but as sure as we awake in the morning, when we have slept comfortably all night, so sure shall the Saints then awake, and shall stand upon their feet, and we shall behold them again with exceeding joy.
Oh Blessed morning! How should we long and wait for that morning, more than they that watch for the dawning of the day?
It is an error in Philosophy, to call Death a total privation of the habit, Divinity hath corrected that error, while it hath taught us to call the dissolution of Nature in the Saints, (at the most) but a sleep; 1which in the Philosophers own notion, is but a partial privation, and doth admit of a Regress or returning again to the habit, or former state and capacity, more beautiful, active, and vigorous than ever; as hereafter shall appear.
It is an errour in Philosophy, to call Death a total privation of the habit, Divinity hath corrected that errour, while it hath taught us to call the dissolution of Nature in the Saints, (at the most) but a sleep; 1