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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.
yea, they are not ashamed of the very language, it is a piece of their gallantry to profess to them that reprove them, or but (meekly) admonish them, I say, to answer with scorn enough, We are none of your Saints; Proud scorner, what art thou then? An unclean swine, yea, an unclean spirit, incarnate Devil, a profane Hellitean, as one faith, for thy speech betrayeth thee? What need farther proof? Ex ore suo, &c. Put such an herd of Swine into Heaven, and verily they would need no other damnation: But God made Heaven for better purposes, than to be an Hell for the haters of holiness: Tophet is prepared of old for them, 1and thither they must be packed away, with the reprobate Angels; down they came, when they had laid aside their holiness, and shall such maligners of holiness, and holy ones, ever come there? Let them not fear, the company of Saints shall never molest ⟨p. 46⟩them; they would have none of their society on earth, and they shall have none of their society in heaven. Possibly, with their elder brother Dives, they may have a prospect of Heaven, where they may see *Lazarus in Abraham's bosom; and (with others of the reprobate family) they may see Abraham, 3Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, 4but that vision will be so far from beatifical, as that it will be the aggravation of their damnation; for as it follows verse 28.
yea, they are not ashamed of the very language, it is a piece of their gallantry to profess to them that reprove them, or but (meekly) admonish them, I say, to answer with scorn enough, We are none of your Saints; Proud scorner, what art thou then? An unclean swine, yea, an unclean spirit, incarnate Devil, a profane Hellitean, as one faith, for thy speech betrayeth thee? What need farther proof? Ex ore suo, &c. Put such an herd of Swine into Heaven, and verily they would need no other damnation: But God made Heaven for better purposes, than to be an Hell for the haters of holiness: Tophet is prepared of old for them,