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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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But then if it be thus, that all the world be but a dark shadow, if that which is revealed in the word be but a glimpse, if all the comforts of the Saints here be but the first-fruits, if all the expressions of men come beneath, if all our desires come short, if all our hopes reach not to it, if all be above the imagination of men and Angels, what is it then? what is that which is thus great? we can tell you somewhat of this recompense of reward negatively, and somewhat comparatively, but very little of it positively; yet somewhat that way too.