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

Now the third thing that we are to come to is, ¹to show what this reward is; we can but give you a little glimpse of it: Whatsoever will be said, it will rather even darken it then otherwise, in regard of the wonderful excellency of it; all the stars in heaven, if they were all Suns, they would be but a dark shadow to set out this reward, and therefore it is reserved to eternity to be known; but yet, because the Lord hath been pleased to let out a beam of light unto us in his word, we shall endeavour to give a little glimpse of it to you, so that the hearts of Christians may be revived in their way, and they may gather up their feet to go on cheerfully in their course, having respect with a discerning, experimental, spiritual, fixed, believing eye, unto the glorious recompense of reward.

NOw the third thing that we are to come to is, ¹to shew what this reward is; we can but give you a little glimpse of it: Whatsoever will be said, it will rather even darken it then otherwise, in regard of the wonderful excellency of it; all the stars in heaven, if they were all Suns, they would be but a dark shadow to set out this reward, and therefore it is reserved to eternity to be known; but yet, because the Lord hath been pleased to let out a beam of light unto us in his word, we shall endeavor to give a little glimpse of it to you, so that the hearts of Christians may be revived in their way, and they may gather up their feet to go on chearfully in their course, having respect with a discerning, experimental, spiritual, fixed, believing eye, unto the glorious recompence of reward.

1. 1De illa ineffabili letitia & mansione aterna nunc ex parte narrantes evangeliza vimus, tanquā si quis è pelagomaris aquaeguttā digito suo auferat. S. Ephraem lib. de Jud. cap. 5.De illa ineffabili letitia & mansione aterna nunc ex parte narrantes evangeliza vimus, tanquā si quis è pelagomaris aquaeguttā digito suo auferat. S. Ephraem lib. de Iud. cap. 5.