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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.
First, 1We shall know more of God than ever we understood of him in this life, either by faith, or by the highest revelation that ever God made of himself to our Souls; more than ever the best of the Saints discovered by faith or divine manifestation; yea, we shall know more of God than ever the most holy of the Patriarchs, the most illuminate Prophet, the most seraphic Evangelist, the most inspired Secretaries and Amanuenses of the Holy Ghost (à secretioribus) on this side Heaven did ever know; yea, what Abraham, (the friend of God) Jacob, who at one time had God in his arms, 2and at another time had his Peniel, the facial vision of God, Moses (the favourite of Heaven, 3to whom God is said to talk as a man speaketh to his friend, and to know face to face) Elijah, 4(who wore as it were the keys of Heaven at his girdle, and could open and shut them as he pleased, and at length ascended thither in a fiery Chariot) Daniel (who had the visions of God) John the Evangelist (whose Patmos was turned into a Paradise, 5where he had and writ the Revelations of Jesus Christ) and finally holy Paul, (who was wrapped up into the third Heaven, 6and heard things ineffable) what these (I say) or any of these knew of the most high God, was but as the Primer learning of Children, to the vast readings of the greatest Masters of learning, in comparison of that of God which shall be known to blessed Souls; the least of Gods elect Infants, going from their Mothers womb to the grave, shall know more of God the first moment it entereth into glory, than the profoundest Divine in the Church of God, could by study, or revelation, ever attain to in this world; this is much.
First, 1We shall know more of God than ever we understood of him in this life, either by faith, or by the highest revelation that ever God made of himself to our Souls; more than ever the best of the Saints discovered by faith or divine manifestation; yea, we shall know more of God than ever the most holy of the Patriarchs, the most illuminate Prophet, the most seraphick Evangelist, the most inspired Secretaries and Amanuenses of the Holy Ghost (à secretioribus) on this side Heaven did ever know; yea, what Abraham, (the freind of God) Jacob, who at one time had God in his arms,