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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.
Secondly, These visions differ in their degree of light and clearness, here we see in part, this is but a partial vision, that in glory is extensive, a full-eyed vision, as one calls it, a most ample, perfect vision; we shall know as we are known, the understanding here is dark, dim and narrow, there clear and vastly capacious.
Now that which this word of Exhortation calls you to is, to exercise your selves much in the vision of God here, and to that end I would have you 1. Make much of your glasses: But 2. Take heed of resting in, and being satisfied with your glasses.
First, Make much of your glasses; Be thankful for them: How many Churches of Jesus Christ have their glasses taken away or broken? Robbed and spoiled of all their precious things, and have not so much as a glass left, wherein they might have some glimpses of divine light conveyed into their understanding? Oh Christians, before it be so with you, make use of your mediums; While you have the light, walk in the light, &c. Bless God that ⟨p. 48⟩the Sun is not totally gone down upon your Prophets, 1nor the day dark over them; God hath done that for you (in as much wonder, and more mercy) that once he did for Joshua, caused your Sun to stand still in your Gibeon, &c. Oh bless God for it! Make his praise glorious.
First, Make much of your glasses; Be thankful for them: How many Churches of Jesus Christ have their glasses taken away or broken? Robb'd and spoiled of all their precious things, and have not so much as a glass left, wherein they might have some glimpses of divine light conveyed into their understanding? Oh Christians, before it be so with you, make use of your mediums; While you have the light, walk in the light, &c. Bless God that