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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 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.
A third Vision, which the Saints shall have in Heaven, is, that of the elect Angels, 1they shall see those glorious ministring 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, distictions (if any) and not so only, but have sweet and heavenly converse and communion with them.
- 1Gregor. do Valent. in Thom. Aquin, gives many reasons of that multitude of Angels asserted by Tho. Aquin. and ads, Certum est in hac multitudins Angelorum, nt mero differentium jus esse Hierarchlas, quarum quaelibet contineat tres ordines, & ita in universum esse novem ordines Angelorum; ne•pe Seraphin, Cherubin, Thronos in primo: Domination•s, Virtutes, Potestates in secunda. Principatus, Archangelos, & Angelos in tertio. Gregor. tom. 1. pa. 106, & 1027. Certum est (saith he) & de fide, in his ipsis ordinibus, alios Angelos esse afficio & dignitate superiors, alios inferiores. The Platonists assert as many Angels as there are Species or sensible Creatures. Aristotle makes as many Angels as Orbs. R. Moses affirms all the powers and operations of superior and inferior things to he so many Angels. Tho. Aquinas confidently asserts the number of the Angels, incomparably to eceed the number of material Substances Maniminus Arrianus saith, there are ninety nine times more than the number of men in the world.