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

Fifthly, here when we do enjoy any comfort from God, we are much sensible of it at the present enjoyment, ¹but after we have had it a little while, we grow to be less sensible, we begin to be cloyed with it: as the most beautiful sight that we did admire at first, if we see it every day, it does not affect us; as who is affected at the sight of the Sun, because he sees it every day? but suppose we had lived all our days in a dark dungeon, and this had been the first day we were brought out of the dungeon, and now see the Sun, and the Earths and Seas, how mightily would we be taken with the sights that we see? but now it is not so with us, because we have the Sun every day: and so the melodious sound to the ear, first we are ravished with it, but when we are used to it, it is nothing: and so for the taste; the taste of sweet things is mightily pleasant to us at first, but afterward it is no more pleasing to us, then the taste of ordinary mean fare is to poor people, who have as much content in their mean fare, as rich men in their delicious fare, because rich men are used to such delicious things; but this is the excellency of Gods manner of communication of himself to his people hereafter, they shall be to all eternity as exactly and fully sensible of the glory of heaven, as they were in the first moment they came into it.

Fifthly, here when we do enjoy any comfort from God, we are much sensible of it at the present enjoyment, ¹but after we have had it a little while, we grow to be less sensible, we begin to be cloyed with it: as the most beautiful sight that we did admire at first, if we see it every day, it does not affect us; as who is affected at the sight of the Sun, because he sees it every day? but suppose we had lived all our days in a dark dungeon, and this had been the first day we were brought out of the dungeon, and now see the Sun, and the Earths and Seas, how mightily would we be taken with the sights that we see? but now it is not so with us, because we have the Sun every day: and so the melodious sound to the ear, first we are ravished with it, but when we are used to it, it is nothing: and so for the taste; the taste of sweet things is mightily pleasant to us at first, but afterward it is no more pleasing to us, then the taste of ordinary mean fare is to poor people, who have as much content in their mean fare, as rich men in their delicious fare, because rich men are used to such delicious things; but this is the excellency of Gods maner of communication of himself to his people hereafter, they shall be to all eternity as exactly and fully sensible of the glory of heaven, as they were in the first moment they came into it.