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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.
But as to this difficulty.
First, Our most learned English Annotator upon that place tells us, that those expressions signify rather the intenseness ⟨p. 36⟩of the Angels reverence and fear, in their approaches to the Supreme Majesty, than their incapacity to take in what of his glory he is pleased to manifest; The Angels being said always to behold the face of God, Matth. 18.10. For, saith he, this is certain, that the nearer the Creature makes his approaches to God, and in the more glorious manner he is pleased to manifest himself, the more apprehensive the Creature is, of its own meanness, baseness, vileness and nothingness, in regard of Gods infinite greatness.
First, Our most learned English Annotator upon that place tells us, that those expressions signifie rather the intenseness ⟨p. 36⟩of the Angels reverence and fear, in their approaches to the Supreme Majesty, than their incapacity to take in what of his glory he is pleased to manifest; The Angels being said alwayes to behold the face of God, Matth. 18.10. For, saith he, this is certain, that the nearer the Creature makes his approaches to God, and in the more glorious manner he is pleased to manifest himself, the more apprehensive the Creature is, of its own meanness, baseness, vileness and nothingness, in regard of Gods infinite greatness.
Secondly, We are taught from the Scriptures, that Divine manifestations in Heaven, though they beget greatest veneration, yet they cause pleasure, not pain, and do rather nourish and perfect the faculty, than any ways hurt or oppress it; the vessel shall be made capacious enough to hold any liquor which the thrice blessed Trinity shall see meet to put into it.