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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.
Fifthly, The Saints shall know God up to the height of that Principle which God imprest upon the Soul in the Creation; For God intending to make a Creature perfectly happy, implanted in its nature *a disposition covetous and capable of knowing God (wherein only the summum bonum of the soul consists) now if God should not satisfy this holy concupiscence in the soul, and fill its capacity to the utmost, he should fail, not the desire of the Creature only, but his own project; the soul will not be contented with such an imperfect knowledge of God as it hath here.
Fifthly, The Saints shall know God up to the height of that Principle which God imprest upon the Soul in the Creation; For God intending to make a Creature perfectly happy, implanted in its nature *a disposition covetous and capable of knowing God (wherein only the summum bonum of the soul consists) now if God should not satisfie this holy concupiscence in the soul, and fill its capacity to the utmost, he should fail, not the desire of the Creature only, but his own project; the soul will not be contented with such an imperfect knowledge of God as it hath here.
- *Concupivit anima mea. Psal. 48.2 This Candle of the Lord doth aspire, (& that without sin) to be a Sun; it being the just and modest desire of the end which God himself created it; not that it would be the Sun, butunited to the Sun: and now that innocent ambition shall be satisfied. Sixth Step. 1 Cor. 13.Concupivit anima mea. Psal. 48.2 This Candle of the Lord doth aspire, (& that without sin) to be a Sun; it being the just and modest desire of the end which God himself created it; not that it would be the Sun, butunited to the Sun: and now that inno•ent ambition shall be satisfied. Sixth Step. 1 Cor. 13.