In Mount Pisgah: A Prospect of Heaven, Thomas Case highlights the significance of 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 as a way of providing “words of comfort over the death of our gracious relations.” He spends most of the book showcasing the consolation derived from the believer’s indissoluble union with Christ and the advantages gained by Christ’s resurrection, ascension, return, and eternal habitation with His people. Case concludes the book with words of counsel, encouraging brothers and sisters in Christ to give and receive comfort from God’s Word. Here is a valuable Puritan treatise showing how Christians should grieve, yet not as others who have no hope.

Contents

To Sir Robert Booth
To William and Elizabeth Hawes
To the Reader

Ten Words of Comfort

1. Departed Saints Are Not Dead, but Sleep
2. Sleeping Saints Are Not Without Hope or Happiness
3. Our Gracious Relations Are Not Alone in Death
4. Jesus Rose Again
5. The Saints Sleep in Jesus
6. God Will Bring His Sleeping Saints with Jesus
7. Sleeping Saints Have No Less Advantage at Christ’s Return
8. The Second Coming of Christ
9. The Triumphant Meeting of All Saints with Their Head
10. The Saints Are Blessed to Be with Jesus Forever

Ten Words of Counsel

1. Sorrow Not as Men Without Hope
2. Observe Comforting Words from Scripture
3. Observe the Goodness of God
4. The Necessity of Faith
5. Seek to Comfort Others
6. God’s Words of Comfort are the Only Words of Comfort
7. Receive Words of Comfort from Others
8. No True Comfort for the Wicked
9. Make Your Death Comfortable to Yourself and Others
10. Study Scripture for Comfort

Endorsement

“What more profitable argument can you recommend to the world than a discourse about those better things which are reserved in heaven for us?”
—Thomas Manton (1620–1677), clerk to the Westminster Assembly

About the Author

Thomas Case (1598–1682) was an influential presbyterian minister in London and member of the Westminster Assembly.