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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 for the second Person in the glorious Trinity, to take upon him the nature of man (and that too, when it was at the worst) when it was fallen and stripped of all its original beauty and excellency, was more than for all the Angels of light to have been degraded (if I may so say) into so many Chimney-sweepers, or Kennel-rakers, or to have been condemned, to have been made hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the service of the reprobate world, had it been to have stood for ever! This, this is the great stupendous mystery, which may fill the understanding of men and Angels with wonder and delight to all eternity, *God manifested in the flesh, the Son of God incarnate. Justly then may it swallow up our thoughts with horror ⟨p. 21⟩and astonishment, to descend step by step to the bottom of the Lord Christ, his mediatory humiliation and abasement, 2to find him emptying of himself, as it were, to the last drop of his glory, meekly submitting himself to all the affronts and insolencies of a reprobate world, all the temptations and harassing of infernal Spirits, and at length to death it self, even the death of the cross, that shameful, cruel, cursed death of the cross; that death which was proper only to accursed slaves; and therein drinking up the bitterest cup that ever was put into the hand of a sinner, the cup of his Fathers wrath, the venom whereof filled his soul with unconceivable anguish, and made him cry out, to the astonishment of Heaven and Earth, My God, my God, why bast thou forsaken me?
Oh for the second Person in the glorious Trinity, to take upon him the nature of man (and that too, when it was at the worst) when it was fallen and stript of all its original beauty and excellency, was more than for all the Angels of light to have been degraded (if I may so say) into so many Chimney-sweepers, or Kennel-rakers, or to have been condemn'd, to have been made hewers of wood, and drawers of wtaer, for the service of the reprobate world, had it been to have stood for ever! This, this is the great stupendious mystery, which may fill the understanding of men and Angels with wonder and delight to all eternity, *God manifested in the flesh, the Son of God incarnate. Justly then may it swallow up our thoughts with horror