Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

First, the difference lies here, a gracious heart does ¹love the reward for the works sake; a carnal heart does only love the work for the rewards sake: As a gracious heart loves heaven, and loves the glory of heaven; but it loves heaven, and the glory of heaven the better, because there is such a blessed way to it. If a man were to go home, and had an ill way, he would love his home; but if he have a fair smooth way home, he loves his home the better for the ways sake; therefore many men are at great cost to have a fair going to their houses: And so a gracious heart loves the way, that God does reveal to come to heaven by, and loves heaven the better because of the way: A carnal heart may love heaven, but he does ⟨p. 491⟩not love heaven the better for the way, but wishes the way to heaven were otherwise; he looks upon the way to heaven as a necessary burden to him: As a man that is going out a journey, and must go through a dirty lane, he goes through it, but complaining; and so, though they desire heaven, yet all the while they are complaining of the way: Certainly there is a great deal of difference between the desires of heaven in a carnal heart, and the desires of it in a gracious heart.

First, the difference lies here, a gracious heart does ¹love the reward for the works sake; a carnal heart does onely love the work for the rewards sake: As a gracious heart loves heaven, and loves the glory of heaven; but it loves heaven, and the glory of heaven the better, because there is such a blessed way to it. If a man were to go home, and had an ill way, he would love his home; but if he have a fair smooth way home, he loves his home the better for the ways sake; therefore many men are at great cost to have a fair going to their houses: And so a gracious heart loves the way, that God does reveal to come to heaven by, and loves heaven the better because of the way: A carnal heart may love heaven, but he does ⟨p. 491⟩not love heaven the better for the way, but wishes the way to heaven were otherwise; he looks upon the way to heaven as a necessary burthen to him: As a man that is going out a journey, and must go through a dirty lane, he goes through it, but complaining; and so, though they desire heaven, yet all the while they are complaining of the way: Certainly there is a great deal of difference between the desires of heaven in a carnal heart, and the desires of it in a gracious heart.