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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.
There be some Arguments against this immediate intuitive Vision, that either cannot, 1or (at least) have not been answered to satisfaction. I will form but one only Argument, in which I will suppose nothing but what is granted by all, which is this, that the understanding of the blessed is not infinite, thus, That which is infinite, cannot by a finite understanding be known so as it is in it self. But the Divine essence is infinite. Therefore, it cannot be known as it is in it self by a finite understanding.
There be some Arguments against this immediate intuitive Vision, that either cannot, 1or (at least) have not been answered to satisfaction. I will form but one only Argument, in which I will suppose nothing but what is granted by all, which is this, that the understanding of the blessed is not infinite, thus, That which is infintte, cannot by a finite understanding be known so as it is in it self. But the Divine essence is infinite. Therefore, it cannot be known as it is in it self by a finite understanding.
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The Major is grounded on a thing infinite, which is such as it cannot be passed over, so as to come to the end ⟨p. 28⟩of it. Answers to this Argument I have met with many, but such as are either apparently impertinent, or else do plainly yield the cause; of this there will be little doubt, by any that shall read over the Discourse of Gishertus Voetius de visione Dei per essentiam; for in that Discourse, the Answers to this Argument are out of various Authors, recited and replied unto, and that to satisfaction.