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

First, we will compare that we have here, with that we shall have hereafter: Brethren, though ¹we receive many mercies from God, yet look what difference there is between that close place of the womb, that the infant is in before it be born, and this space of the world that the child comes into when it is born; such difference is between all this world, and any good and happiness here, and the world that is to come; this, and much more then this.

FIrst, we will compare that we have here, with that we shall have hereafter: Brethren, though ¹we receive many mercies from God, yet look what difference there is between that close place of the womb, that the infant is in before it be born, and this space of the world that the childe comes into when it is born; such difference is between all this world, and any good and happiness here, and the world that is to come; this, and much more then this.

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First, here we receive good from without: First ¹unto our outward senses, and by them it comes into the soul; but now hereafter God shall first let out good unto the soul, unto the rational part, and from the redundancy of that good and glory that God shall communicate unto the rational soul, there shall flow glory, and sweetness, and good to the body, and outward senses: whereas here we see from without, and so it comes in; there shall be a spring, and a fountain of good within the soul; the kingdom of heaven shall be within, and more good shall be in the heart, and flow from ⟨p. 502⟩thence outwardly, then to be received from without, and so to come inwardly; for us to receive something in our senses, and so to convey it to the soul, this is but a low way; but to have a spring and fountain of all good and happiness to be within the soul, and so spread it self and flow out, this shows wonderfully the blessedness of Gods people, when God shall communicate himself to them in that way.