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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.
Oh let Parents, and Ministers, and Governors, and Tutors, and Yoke-fellows, Brethren, Friends, &c. be but as good now as Dives was in hell, I mean, let them be but in as good carnest here as he was there, that their Relations may never come into that place of torment; and if they do wilfully cast themselves headlong into that irrecoverable Gulf, it will be no grief of heart to them when they come to Heaven: But even as God himself (they being then swallowed up in God) they will even laugh at their calamity, and mock when they see their condemnation.
Oh let Parents, and Ministers, and Governours, and Tutors, and Yoke-fellows, Brethren, Friends, &c. be but as good now as Dives was in hell, I mean, let them be but in as good carnest here as he was there, that their Relations may never come into that place of torment; and if they do wilfully cast themselves headlong into that irrecoverable Gulf, it will be no grief of heart to them when they come to Heaven: But even as God himself (they being then swallowed up in God) they will even laugh at their calamity, and mock when they see their condemnation.
This shall suffice to have spoken of the second Vision in Glory.
A third Vision, which the Saints shall have in Heaven, is, that of the elect Angels, 1they shall see those glorious ministering Spirits, those flames of fire, the Angels of God, by what names or titles soever they are dignified or distinguished in their Hierarchical orders (if there be any which because it is a dispute of greater fancy than Scripture evidence, and hath filled the world with more empty speculation than substantial knowledge, I shall wholly wave it. Heaven will be the place only, where we shall exactly know their nature, number, order, distinctions (if any) and not so only, but have sweet and heavenly converse and communion with them.