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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.
This Nupt•ll solemnity finished, 1the next and fourth act in that solemn meeting will be, that the Bridegroom will take the Queen his Bride, and set her upon his Throne, at his right hand, (as King Agrippa did Bernice, Act. 25.27.) as a Confessor with himself in the following part of the Judgment, which He, as Judg, shall pass upon the Reprobate world of men and Devils; who have all this while stood trembling below upon the Earth, beholding (to their infinite shame and horror) all this glory put upon the Saints; and fearfully looking for their own Judgment, and that fiery indignation which shall devour the Adversaries; which now succeeds; For the Elect Angels who are appointed to be the Satellites, or Posse comitatus, to attend the Judg, shall now drag that miserable company of Jail-birds (those reprobate Caitiffs of infernal Spirits, 2and wicked Men) before the Tribunal of the great Judg; there they shall pass under a most impartial, exact, and severe Trial; 3the books shall be opened, the book of Gods Remembrance, and the book of their own Consciences; and out of them they shall be judged for all the evils, which ever they committed from the time they first had a being in the world. The Reprobate Angels shall then be judged for their first Apostasy; 4and for all their malice and revenge, which since that cursed defection, they ever acted against God, and against his Saints; yea and against the precious Souls of Men, which (they being damned themselves) ceased not to draw into the same Condemnation, The Angels which kept not their first Estate, or principality, (Jude 6.) but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in chams under darkness, unto the judgment of the great Day. With these chains rattling at their heels, shall they be dragged to the bar of divine Judgment; and there, ⟨p. 165⟩