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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.
For the first, the presence of God, that glorious presence that the Saints shall have of God in Heaven, is a great part of their happiness: Heaven, it were not Heaven without the presence of God: The presence of God in the most miserable place that can be, were a greater happiness then the absence of God in the most glorious place that can be. David would not be afraid, though he walked in the valley of the shadow of death, so that God were with him, Psal. 23. Luther would rather be in Hell with Gods presence, 1then in Heaven God being absent. If the presence of God takes away the dread of the shadow of the valley of death, and makes Hell to be more desired then Heaven, what will the presence of God make Heaven to be? The three Children in the fiery furnace with Gods presence were happy? how happy then are the Saints with Gods presence in Heaven? The Saints desire Gods presence even when he is angry, they are loth to be out of his presence then. It is very observable that we have recorded of David, Psal. 51. ver. 9. he cries to God to hide his face from his sins, for Gods face was then an angry face against him: yet ver. 11. he cries again, Cast me not away from thy presence; he was not willing to be out of Gods presence howsoever, upon which St. Augu hath ⟨p. 534⟩this expression, Whose face he fears, even his face he invocates. God made rich promises to 2Moses, yet he could not be satisfied without the presence of God: If thy presence be not with us, bring us not hence. And the Apostle, when he would set out the misery of those that are damned, in 2 Thess. 1. 9. says the Text, They shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord; now the presence of God must needs be the happiness of the Saints.
For the first, the presence of God, that glorious presence that the Saints shal have of God in Heaven, is a great part of their happiness: Heaven, it were not Heaven without the presence of God: The presence of God in the most miserable place that can be, were a greater happiness then the absence of God in the most glorious place that can be. David would not be afraid, though he walked in the valley of the shadow of death, so that God were with him,