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

Secondly, the eye that a gracious heart hath to ¹the recompense of reward, is another manner of eye then any carnal heart can have. What kind of eye is it? First, the eye that a gracious heart hath to the ²reward, it is a clear discerning eye; he does not take the things of heaven as guesses, and imaginary things, but looks upon them as certain substantial realities: For my own part, I much doubt whether any man in the world be able to see the glorious things in heaven, as certain substantial things, that hath not the truth of grace: The truth of grace it is partly in this thing, in having that principle in the soul, that makes the soul able to look at the things of heaven as the only real, substantial, excellent things, so as to darken all the glory of the things of the world; so that when you come thus far, whereas before you heard something of heaven, and they were but imaginary things; and now there is such a light set up in your souls, as you see the things of heaven as the only real, substantial, glorious things; certainly there is the work of grace: The ground of it is that of Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, so that the work of faith is there seen: Whosoever ⟨p. 492⟩speaks of the reward that is in heaven, if the glory of the world be not darkened in their eyes, it argues there is no true saving faith.

Secondly, the eye that a gracious heaat hath to ¹the recompence of reward, is another maner of eye then any carnal heart can have. What kinde of eye is it? First, the eye that a gracious heart hath to the ²reward, it is a clear discerning eye; he does not take the things of heaven as guesses, and imaginary things, but looks upon them as certain substantial realties: For my own part, I much doubt whether any man in the world be able to see the glorious things in heaven, as certain substantial things, that hath not the truth of grace: The truth of grace it is partly in this thing, in having that principle in the soul, that makes the soul able to look at the things of heaven as the onely real, substantial, excellent things, so as to darken all the glory of the things of the world; so that when you come thus far, whereas before you heard something of heaven, and they were but imaginary things; and now there is such a light set up in your souls, as you see the things of heaven as the onely real, substantial, glorious things; certainly there is the work of grace: The ground of it is that of