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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.
Finally, It will be no small security to the mutual love and complacency of the Saints, that in Heaven they shall be set beyond all possibility of being mistaken in one another's condition. Here below, how easily and how often are we deceived? Behold, a Judas amongst the Disciples, whom none of them could discover, but only their Lord that [Greek or Hebrew], Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Devil? John 6.70. Oh dreadful, a Judas follower of Christ, and yet a devil! a Disciple and yet a devil! a Preacher and yet a devil! fast and pray and yet a devil! do miracles ⟨p. 8⟩and yet a devil! cast out devils and yet a Devil! yea, once more Judas who, (for some time) carried it so fair, that when their Lord prophesied of one of their company that should be guilty of so horrid a treason as to betray his Lord, they every man began to suspect rather than Judas, and cried, Lord, is it I? Is it I; Lord, &c, Oh dreadful mistake! And such mistakes (when discovered) oh what a shame! what condolency! what grief! what perplexity of spirit do they occasion amongst Gods upright ones!
Finally, It will be no small security to the mutual love and complacency of the Saints, that in Heaven they shall be set beyond all possibility of being mistaken in one anothers condition. Here below, how easily and how often are we deceived? Behold, a Judas amongst the Disciples, whom none of them could discover, but only their Lord that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Devil? John 6.70. Oh dreadful, a Judas follower of Christ, and yet a devil! a Disciple and yet a devil! a Preacher and yet a devil! fast and pray and yet a devil! do miracles ⟨p. 8⟩and yet a devil! cast out devils and yet a Devil! yea, once more Judas who, (for some time) carried it so fair, that when their Lord prophesied of one of their company that should be guilty of so horrid a treason as to betray his Lord, they every man began to suspect rather than Judus, and cried, Lord, is it I? Is it I; Lord, &c, Oh dreadful mistake! And such mistakes (when discovered) oh what a shame! what condolency! what grief! what perplexity of spirit do they occasion amongst Gods upright ones!