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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, 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, ⟨p. 41⟩lest that angry question come and sweep away all, Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, 1seeing he hath no heart to it?
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 intollerable 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, ⟨p. 41⟩lest that angry question come and sweep away all, Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, 1seeing he hath no heart to it?
A second thing I would call you to is, while you use Ordinances, to take heed of resting in, and of resting contented with Ordinances; an Ordinance of God, without the God of the Ordinance, what an empty glass is it? There is a vision of Ordinances, and there is a vision in Ordinances; oh take not up with that without this; pray for such a spirit as he had, whose voice it is,