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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.
In a word, The Saints shall know God to perfection, though not to infinitude, they shall see him so as to repose themselves in him with full complacency and delight, so that they shall say, they have enough. In this life some of the Saints, at sometimes, have had such manifestations of God, as have made them weep as bitterly (as ever any under desertion) crying out, Lord withdraw thy glory, else the vessel will split, and I shall dishonour God. And it may justly be our wonder, how it should be otherwise to the Saints in the other world, a wonder that a created, finite faculty should be able to bear the weight of glory, which filleth the infinite Object, and not be destroyed by the immensity of it; especially since we read of the very Angels themselves, 1who in a vision of somewhat an inferior nature to that facial vision in glory, for the exceeding brightness of it, are said to veil their faces and their feet; their faces, as having their eyes dazzled with the exceeding brightness of his glorious appearance; and their feet, as abashed in the apprehension of their own meanness and imperfection, in comparison of Gods incomparable and incomprehensible perfections.
In a word, The Saints shall know God to perfection, though not to infinitude, they shall see him so as to repose themselves in him with full complacency and delight, so that they shall say, they have enough. In this life some of the Saints, at sometimes, have had such manifestations of God, as have made them weep as bitterly (as ever any under desertion) crying out, Lord withdraw thy glory, else the vessel will split, and I shall dishonour God. And it may justly be our wonder, how it should be otherwise to the Saints in the other world, a wonder that a created, finite faculty should be able to bear the weight of glory, which filleth the infinite Object, and not be destroyed by the immensity of it; especially since we read of the very Angels themselves, 1who in a vision of somewhat an inferiour nature to that facial vision in glory, for the exceeding brightness of it, are said to veil their faces and their feet; their faces, as having their eyes dazeld with the exceeding brightness of his glorious appearance; and their feet, as abashed in the apprehension of their own meanness and imperfection, in comparison of Gods incomparable and incomprehensible perfections.