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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.
Sixthly, They shall know him properly. Junius tells us, it is the Judgment of all Protestants; and Willet upon Exodus expounds that notion by [apprehensively] (though not comprehensively) that is, we shall understand clearly, certainly and fully what God is: Clearly] in opposition to dark created mediums; we shall see God by his own light, Psal. 36.9. Certainly] in opposition to guess, opinion and imperfect knowledge: And fully] not objective in reference to God, but subjective in reference to our selves; the faculty shall be full of God as it can hold, †as a vessel in the Sea, that is full of the Sea, though it contains not all the Sea in it.
Sixthly, They shall know him properly. Junius tells us, it is the Judgment of all Protestants; and Willet upon Exodus expounds that notion by [apprehensively] (though not comprehensively) that is, we shall understand clearly, certainly and fully what God is: Clearly] in opposition to dark created mediums; we shall see God by his own light, Psal. 36.9. Certainly] in opposition to ghess, opinion and imperfect knowledge: And fully] not objective in reference to God, but subjective in reference to our selves; the faculty shall be full of God as it can hold, †as a vessel in the Sea, that is full of the Sea, though it contains not all the Sea in it.
- †nor all alike but according to the capacity of every vessels heat, degrees of happiness do spring from that lumen gloriae, being variously shed among these blessed Souls.
Seventhly, The Saints shall know God fruitionally, 1that is, they shall know him so as to possess God, and to be possessed of God. The soul doth, as it were, enter into God, and God into the soul; the joy of the Lord enters into the soul here, there the soul enters into the Lords joy.