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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.
Lastly, that we have from God here, is mediately 1conveyed through many Channels, through the Pipes of Creatures and Ordinances, but that we shall have hereafter, shall be let out immediately from God; and this is indeed the special difference of all, from whence flow many excellent consequences, which would even require a particular of it self: I may hereafter enlarge my self in this, in some other Treatise.
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And thus you may see the blessed condition of Gods people, when they come to the recompense of reward. We have something here, and we rejoice in it, and bless God for it; but those ways that God hath to communicate himself to his people hereafter, are glorious ways. O that our hearts were raised to look after that communication of God that we shall have hereafter! O those base and drossy spirits that we have! Because we receive some goodness of God here, we are ready to be quieted here, and rest here, as if God had nothing to communicate to the Children of men, but that we have here. See the ⟨p. 509⟩vileness of our hearts, we are here ready to rest upon the lowest things that God communicates, and do not so much as rise in our hearts to the highest things that are communicated here; but a christian heart should rise higher then the most excellent things that are here in the world; namely, to the most blessed things that are hereafter; let us show our selves that we are men of hopes to enjoy God after another manner then here.
And thus you may see the blessed condition of Gods people, when they come to the recompence of reward. We have something here, and we rejoyce in it, and bless God for it; but those ways that God hath to communicate himself to his people hereafter, are glorious ways. O that our hearts were raised to look after that communication of God that we shall have hereafter! O those base and drossie spirits that we have! Because we receive some goodness of God here, we are ready to be quieted here, and rest here, as if God had nothing to communicate to the Children of men, but that we have here. See the