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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.
Until this distance be removed, there is no possible access for the Soul to God; this partition wall is broken down when holiness is set up; and according to the degree of purity, is the degree of vision, as the Soul passeth from one degree of holiness to another, so it passeth from one state and degree of vision to another; 1We all beholding as in a glass, &c. The purer the glass, the brighter the vision.
- 12 Cor, 3.
Secondly, Holiness disposeth for the vision of God ⟨p. 42⟩by approximation and assimilating the Soul to God. Holiness is the very Image of God, the divine nature, not in a fanatic sense, not the divine being. Indeed holiness in God is the divine essence, but holiness in the Creature is but a gracious quality, whereby the Creature resembleth God, 1and is made pure as he is pure, holy as he is holy. This advanceth the Soul to a nearer vicinity to God, whereby it is put into a passive capacity of seeing God; passive, I say, for the formal visive power of seeing God, is from the object more than the subject of it, scil. so far as God is pleased to beam in his glory into the faculty, and enableth it to bear it; 2holiness only gives the Soul a suitableness to receive in those divine irradiations.
Secondly, Holiness disposeth for the vision of God ⟨p. 42⟩by approximation and assimilating the Soul to God. Holiness is the very Image of God, the divine nature, not in a fanatick sense, not the divine being. Indeed holiness in God is the divine essence, but holiness in the Creature is but a gracious quality, whereby the Creature resembleth God,