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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.
The fifth Perfection is Strength. 1The vision of God doth fortify the understanding. In nature, the more vehement and intense the object, the more it hurts and cr•sheth the sense; the vision of God, though but under a veil, 2did undo the Prophet Isaiah. Holy Daniel's vision (though but a vision) did dispirit him, and left him without strength. Saint John his vision, though but the darker side of the beatifical sight of God, stayeth him outright for a time, I fell at his feet as dead. The souls of the blessed in Heaven, are set beyond all fear of such a surprise of glory, while God fills their faculty, he doth also sustain and perfect it, by means whereof the faculty shall never be weary of its object, but still behold it with fresh vigour and delight: So it follows.
The fifth Perfection is Strength. 1The vision of God doth fortifie the understanding. In nature, the more vehement and intense the object, the more it hurts and cr•sheth the sence; the vision of God, though but under a veil, 2did undo the Prophet Isaiah. Holy Daniel's vision (though but a vision) did dispirit him, and left him without strength. Saint John his vision, though but the darker side of the beatifical sight of God, stayeth him outright for a time, I fell at his feet as dead. The souls of the blessed in Heaven, are set beyond all fear of such a surprise of glory, while God fills their faculty, he doth also sustain and perfect it, by means whereof the faculty shall never be weary of its object, but still behold it with fresh vigour and delight: So it follows.
- 15. Perfection Strength.
- 2C••e vehement sensibile destruit sensum. Dan. 10.7, 8