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

Again, they are beyond all our hopes: It is said of Abraham, He believed above hope; we cannot believe above hope in this sense, that is above the great things that are hoped for, and yet God loves to have his people raise their hopes high.¹

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Yea lastly, it is beyond all imagination; if men and Angels should set themselves to imagine what ¹they would have, they would think if such and such things were, that would be a glorious condition, this reward shall be beyond imagination; we may imagine that which we could not almost desire, but whatsoever you can invent or imagine, you shall have that ⟨p. 498⟩happiness, or that which is beyond it: sometime we think, what a sweet thing will it be in Heaven to meet our Father, our Mother, our Brother or Sister, our Husband or Wife? these relations shall cease there; but we may conclude, though we have not that there, we shall have that which shall be better, and that which we would rather choose.

Yea lastly, it is beyond all imagination; if men and Angels should set themselves to imagine what ¹they would have, they would think if such and such things were, that would be a glorious condition, this reward shall be beyond imagination; we may imagine that which we could not almost desire, but whatsoever you can invent or imagine, you shall have that ⟨p. 498⟩happiness, or that which is beyond it: sometime we think, what a sweet thing will it be in Heaven to meet our Father, our Mother, our Brother or Sister, our Husband or Wife? these relations shall cease there; but we may conclude, though we have not that there, we shall have that which shall be better, and that which we would rather chuse.