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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.
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.
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 sences, 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 shews wonderfully the blessedness of Gods people, when God shall communicate himself to them in that way.
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