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Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by John Field, 1650
Moses his Choice. › Part 3 › Chapter 39: There is glorious reward for the people of God.
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Tenthly, it appears there are great things for the people of God hereafter, because of the great hopes 1that are wrought in the hearts of Gods servants, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Now surely such hopes as are wrought by the power of the Holy Ghost, they must attain unto glorious things: Rom. 15. 13. Now the God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost: the hope of Gods people is that which is not only wrought by the Holy Ghost, but by the power of the Holy Ghost; and such an hope, as God is pleased to stile himself the God of this hope; and therefore certainly glorious things are to be revealed.
Tenthly, it appears there are great things for the people of God hereafter, because of the great hopes 1that are wrought in the hearts of Gods servants, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Now surely such hopes as are wrought by the power of the Holy Ghost, they must attain unto glorious things: Rom. 15. 13. Now the God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost: the hope of Gods people is that which is not onely wrought by the Holy Ghost, but by the power of the Holy Ghost; and such an hope, as God is pleased to stile himself the God of this hope; and therefore certainly glorious things are to be revealed.
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Another demonstration is this, the very natures and 1excellency of grace, is to take off our hearts from these present things in the world, and from all the good that is here in the creature, God does give grace for this end; now then I reason thus: if the chief excellency of grace be to take the hearts of the Saints from the things of the world, and to settle them upon higher and better things, then certainly there are glorious things to come.