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Such is our nature, and yet notwithstanding all this Moses is content. He knoweth that God doth him no wrong,¹ but is just and merciful also. He blesseth all alike, as Jacobs children were blessed.

Such is our nature, and yet notwithstanding all this Moses is content. Hee knoweth that God doth him no wrong,¹ but is iust and mercifull also. He blesseth all alike, as Iacobs children were blessed.

1. 1Gen. 49. 55

Moses so long as he was upon the plain ground, could not see the types of heaven: but when he was upon the Mount, he saw it before he came to heaven it self: So let us even now seal the Mount as Moses did, that ⟨p. 912⟩we may see and consider these joys. Which thing shall be to reclaim our hearts from earthly matters. As Peter went up the mount to see Christs glory, and Moses went up the mount to see the land of promise: so let us ascend from these earthly things to the contemplation of heavenly. This should be our journey till we come up to heaven it self, to clime the hill: for we are low men of stature like Zacheus, who cannot see Christ before we be lifted from the earth, so that if we will ever possess heaven, we must pluck our hearts from the earth, and then shall we see God nearer than we can possibly, if we keep our minds upon earthly matters. God showeth himself to some nearer, to some farther off, and to some in parables: As the Prophets saw God nearer than the Patriarchs: and the Apostles nearer than the Prophets:¹ As to Abraham he said In thy seed: ²