A35583:919
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.
Secondly, 1The glorified Saints shall know more of God ⟨p. 32⟩and the divine nature, than Adam did in Paradise; he was prevailed upon by the Tempter, to affect a greater and higher degree of knowledge than he had, above what the Creator saw fit to bestow, more than belonged to his nature and state; he would have known as God knows; that is, to full satisfaction and complacency.
- 1Second Step.
Thirdly, 1The glorified Saints know God affirmatively. The greatest part of our knowledge of God in this life is either By 1. 2Denying, or 2. Comparing, or Ascending 3. By way of Causation.
- 1Third Step.
- 2Dem cognoscitur per mo dumb Negation•. Eminentiae. Causationis.Dem cognoscitur per mo dum Negation•. Eminentiae. Causationis.
First, By denying, we come to know God in this life, by removing all imperfections, and defects, and limitations, by taking away all things which are inconsistent with a Deity: conceive a spiritual being, and pare off whatsoever is imperfect or defective, and that which remains is God; we can go in our conceptions, or descriptions of God, very little farther. Or,