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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.
Great things will be done that day; there will be the Great Supper that God will make for the solemnizing of the Marriage, and the great meeting of the Saints with Christ: O what salutations can you imagine will there be between Christ and his members! and being met, the sentence of Absolution shall be pronounced before men and Angels: Christ shall honour the Saints before all the world, and say, These are they, these are the men for whom the eternal counsels of my Father did work to make them glorious; these are they for whom I came into the world, and shed my blood, and laid down my life; these are they in whom I am to be glorified for ever. Again, the glory of the day shall be in setting of the Saints with Christ upon thrones, in judgement, to judge the whole world, the Monarchs and great ones of the earth; and so to be honoured in the eyes of those that were their enemies, and contemned, and reproached them, and vilified them before; and likewise their glory shall be in this, to rejoice in the execution of the sentence that is pronounced upon those that are condemned. Lastly, their glory ⟨p. 525⟩shall be in their glorious ascension with Christ into the highest heavens, ranked in their comely order, with triumph and joy, singing, Stand open ye gates, and be ye open ye everlasting doors, that the King of glory and all his redeemed ones may come in.
Great things will be done that day; there will be the Great Supper that God will make for the solemnizing of the Marriage, and the great meeting of the Saints with Christ: O what salutations can you imagine will there be between Christ and his members! and being met, the sentence of Absolution shall be pronounced before men and Angels: Christ shall honor the Saints before all the world, and say, These are they, these are the men for whom the eternal counsels of my Father did work to make them glorious; these are they for whom I came into the world, and shed my blood, and laid down my life; these are they in whom I am to be glorified for ever. Again, the glory of the day shall be in setting of the Saints with Christ upon thrones, in judgement, to judge the whole world, the Monarchs and great ones of the earth; and so to be honored in the eyes of those that were their enemies, and contemned, and reproached them, and vilified them before; and likewise their glory shall be in this, to rejoyce in the execution of the sentence that is pronounced upon those that are condemned. Lastly, their glory ⟨p. 525⟩