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…

In a word, if you would come to the bottom of our Lords abasement, you must dig to the very bottom of hell it self, (if there be a bottom there) for though Christ did not suffer poenas inferni, he did suffer poenas infirnales, hellish pains, though not the pains of hell. Why now, then if you would make any discovery of that glory, wherewith the humane nature of our blessed Lord is invested, at the right hand of God, you must screw up your thoughts, to a glory every way adequate and commensurate to his inanition and abasement, for less than that (not only the love, but) the justice of his Father could not proportion to him. It were good sometimes in our thoughts to compare the abasement of Christ and his exaltation together, to set them, as it were, in columns one over against another. He was born in a Stable, but now he reigns in his Royal Palace; then he had a Manger for his Cradle, but now he sets in a Chair of state; then Oxen and Asses were his Companions, now thousands of Saints, and ten thousand thousands of Angels minister round about his Throne; then (in contempt) they called him the Carpenters Son, now he obtains by inheritance a more excellent name than the Angels; for to which of the Angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? Then ⟨p. 22⟩he was led away into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, now it is proclaimed before him, let all the Angels of God worship him; then he had not a place to lay his head on, now he is exalted to be the heir of all things; in his state of humiliation, he endured the contradiction of sinners, in his state of exaltation, he is adored and admired of Saints and Angels; then he had no form or comeliness, when we saw him, there was no beauty that we should desire him, now the beauty of his countenance shall send forth such glorious beams, that shall dazzle the eyes of all the celestial Inhabitants round about him; once he was the shame of the world, now the glory of heaven, the delight of his Father, the joy of all the Saints and Angels; once he was the object of the Reprobates scorn, and the Devils malice, now they shall be the objects of his most righteous vengeance; he shall speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure;

In a word, if you would come to the bottom of our Lords abasement, you must dig to the very bottom of hell it self, (if there be a bottom there) for though Christ did not suffer poenas inferni, he did suffer poenas infirnales, hellish pains, though not the pains of hell. Why now, then if you would make any discovery of that glory, wherewith the humane nature of our blessed Lord is invested, at the right hand of God, you must skrew up your thoughts, to a glory every way adequate and commensurate to his inanition and abasement, for less than that (not only the love, but) the justice of his Father could not proportion to him. It were good sometimes in our thoughts to compare the abasement of Christ and his exaltation together, to set them, as it were, in columes one over against another. He was born in a Stable, but now he reigns in his Royal Palace; then he had a Manger for his Cradle, but now he sets in a Chair of state; then Oxen and Asses were his Companions, now thousands of Saints, and ten thousand thousands of Angels minister round about his Throne; then (in contempt) they called him the Carpenters Son, now he obtains by inheritance a more excellent name than the Angels; for to which of the Angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? Then