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…

While the Saints were upon earth, Heaven was theirs, but it was only in reversion, and they counted themselves blessed in that, Matth. 5.3. But now reversion is turned into possession; the Saints hold nothing in Heaven by reversion, that title ceaseth there: All the Beatitudes in Heaven are present possession; God, and Christ, and the Holy Ghost, Angels, and Saints, and all the glory of the upper world, are so many possessions; the Saints are possest of God, and possest of Christ, and possessed of the Holy Ghost, and possest of glory: as on the contrary, the damned in hell are possest of the Devil, they are possest of hell, and of utter ⟨p. 54⟩darkness, and of the worm that shall never dye, &c. Oh dreadful possession!

Hope was once their tenure: ¹In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lye, &c. And they rejoiced in it; Ye rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, and they blessed God for it: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, which hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, &c. of which hope faith was the substance and basis, Heb. 11.1. and even this hope was very precious unto them a little heaven upon earth, save that now and then some clouds of fear and doubts did interpose between heaven and their dim eye, and so eclipsed their vision.

Hope was once their tenure: ¹In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lye, &c. And they rejoyced in it; Ye rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God, and they blessed God for it: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, which hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, &c. of which hope faith was the substance and basis,