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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.
1. Spirituality. 2. Clarity. 3. Capacity. 4. Sanctity. 5. Strength. 6. Fixedness.
The first perfection of the understanding shall be spirituality; 1it shall be spiritualized; spiritual it is now; as spiritual is opposed to corporeal, though not as spiritual is opposed to natural. The Soul is now forced to be a Caterer for a body of flesh, to provide things that are necessary for the sustentation of the animal life; it busieth it self to satisfy the appetites of hunger and thirst, &c. if it can redeem a few hours for actions more proper and peculiar ⟨p. 37⟩to it, it is so clogged, so pressed down with the bodies infirmities, as that it soon drops down to the earth, and is drawn aside, to attend the impertinences of this present life. But when it shall be joined to an animate a spiritual body, and it self, in its glorified capacity, then it shall be wholly taken up with objects spiritual and heavenly, and made, as it were, connatural to them, elevated by the light of glory, to the vision of God. This lumen gloriae is not so much for the discovery of the object, as for the help and advancing of a created faculty, which would else be much oppressed with the weight of glory, it is not so much the raising and screwing of nature higher, but it is the adding of a new disposition, that may close with the divine object, so that though there be still an infinite disproportion between God and the Creature in esse naturali, yet there is a just proportion in esse intelligibili.
The first perfection of the understanding shall be spirituality; 1it shall be spiritualized; spiritual it is now; as spiritual is opposed to corporeal, though not as spiritual is opposed to natural. The Soul is now forced to be a Caterer for a body of flesh, to provide things that are necessary for the sustentation of the animal life; it busieth it self to satisfie the appetites of hunger and thirst, &c. if it can redeem a few hours for actions more proper and peculiar