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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.
And secondly, Make good use of your mediums, attend Reading, and Hearing, and Prayer, and Sacraments while you have them; take heed of that dangerous notion, of being above Ordinances, it is a Precipice upon which many have stumbled into darkness: Oh that it may not prove utter darkness, the blackness of darkness for ever!
There is a living above Ordinances which hath a good sense in it: that is,
There is a living above Ordinances which hath a good sence in it: that is,
First, When God hath taken away Ordinances, or permitted men to take them away, then to live above them, i. e. to be able to live immediately upon God, as knowing, that though God hath tied us to means, he hath not tied himself to means; he that converts and saveth by Ordinances, can do his work without them; the means can do nothing without God, but God can do what he will without the means; so to live by faith is exceeding precious.
Secondly, In the use of Ordinances, to look above Ordinances, to look up to God, whose Ordinances they are, as only able to make his own Institutions effectual to the accomplishing of his own ends; thus to use Ordinances, and to trust God, is excellent; but for a people while they have Ordinances to slight them, and neglect them, and talk of living above Ordinances, this is intolerable pride and folly, yea, it is a mocking of God, to be wiser than God, and instead of living above Ordinances, to live without God. Oh learn to make much of the Ordinances,