Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

But though Christ found them asleep, and though he foreknew that they would forsake him, he forsook not them, nor used them as they deserved, but comforted them with a glimpse of Heaven. For he died for his Enemies.

§ 21. But this was but once in all the time of his abode among them. It was an extraordinary Feast, and not their daily Bread: They had Christ still with them, but not transfigured in Glory, nor Moses and Elijah in their sight: We are too apt to think that if God give us a joyful extraordinary glimpse of Heaven, we must have it always; or that he forsaketh us, and castus ⟨p. 328⟩off when he denieth it us! O that we were as desirous of Holiness and Duty, as we are of the Joy which is the reward! But our Father, and not we, must be the chooser both of our Food and Feast. Moses did not dwell on Mount Nebo, that he might still see the Land of Promise: It was enough to have one sight of it before his death. As Flesh and Blood cannot enter into Heaven, so it's little of Heaven that entereth into it.

§ 21. But this was but once in all the time of his abode among them. It was an extraordinary Feast, and not their daily Bread: They had Christ still with them, but not transfigured in Glory, nor Moses and Elias in their sight: We are too apt to think that if God give us a joyful extraordinary glimpse of Heaven, we must have it always; or that he forsaketh us, and castus ⟨p. 328⟩off when he denieth it us! O that we were as desirous of Holiness and Duty, as we are of the Joy which is the reward! But our Father, and not we, must be the chooser both of our Food and Feast. Moses did not dwell on Mount Nebo, that he might still see the Land of Promise: It was enough to have one sight of it before his death. As Flesh and Blood cannot enter into Heaven, so it's little of Heaven that entereth into it.