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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.
Sol. To this I answer, No; and the reason is, because all the perfections and excellencies which are in the Creature, are as so many beams and emanations, leading the eye of the beholder to the Sun it self, the body and fountain from which they do spring; 1or as learned and holy mens Commentaries and Expositions are to the holy Scripture, which do neither detract from, nor add to that immense volume of truth, but serve only to illustrate it, and to render it more intelligible ⟨p. 18⟩to the dark and imperfect understanding of the Creature: Surely such an infinite full Text as God is, will stand in need of some marginal notes, as it were, 2to help the Reader; as Christ is said, in the days of his flesh, to be the Exegesis, or Interpreter, of the Father unto us, John 1.18. So may the Angels be to the Saints in Heaven; and such is all the glory of Heaven: yea, so is the humane nature of Christ himself, now in glory, the great Expositor of the Divine Essence, a Mirror or Glass, wherein we come to see God more clearly and fully. Which brings me to.
Sol. To this I answer, No; and the reason is, because all the perfections and excellencies which are in the Creature, are as so many beams and emanations, leading the eye of the beholder to the Sun it self, the body and fountain from which they do spring; 1or as learned and holy mens Commentaries and Expositions are to the holy Scripture, which do neither detract from, nor add to that immense volume of truth, but serve only to illustrate it, and to render it more intelligible ⟨p. 18⟩to the dark and imperfect understanding of the Creature: Surely such an infinite full Text as God is, will stand in need of some marginal notes, as it were, 2to help the Reader; as Christ is said, in the dayes of his flesh, to be the Exegesis, or Interpreter, of the Father unto us,