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

First, to see God as the first being of all, or the principle of all good, is a most blessed thing, to see ¹Adam the first father, or Eve the first mother of mankind, or for a child to see his father, or mother, out of whose loins and bowels he came, whom he hath ⟨p. 536⟩not seen in many years, this is a joy and comfort; but to see the Creator, the first Principle of all things, that must be a great, an infinite contentment; and to see him that hath done all the good in the world, hath much satisfaction in it. We would rejoice to see a man that hath been an instrument to do great things in some Country, as the King of Sweden, or the like; but to see God that hath done all the great things in the world, what a blessed joy and contentment will that be? The rational creature does naturally desire to know the causes and principles of things, no other creature looks at the principles and causes of things, but the rational creature. If other creatures may have that which is suitable to sense, they look no farther; but a rational creature cannot be satisfied in whatsoever it hath, unless it knows something of the principles and causes of the thing it hath, and when it knows the cause of one thing, it would know the cause of that, and nothing will quiet it till it comes to see the cause of all; and when it comes to know that, it hath full contentment: Show us the Father, and it sufficeth.

First, to see God as the first being of all, or the principle of all good, is a most blessed thing, to see ¹Adam the first father, or Eve the first mother of mankinde, or for a childe to see his father, or mother, out of whose loyns and bowels he came, whom he hath ⟨p. 536⟩not seen in many years, this is a joy and comfort; but to see the Creator, the first Principle of all things, that must be a great, an infinite contentment; and to see him that hath done all the good in the world, hath much satisfaction in it. We would rejoyce to see a man that hath been an instrument to do great things in some Countrey, as the King of Sweden, or the like; but to see God that hath done all the great things in the world, what a blessed joy and contentment will that be? The rational creature does naturally desire to know the causes and principles of things, no other creature looks at the principles and causes of things, but the rational creature. If other creatures may have that which is suitable to sense, they look no farther; but a rational creature cannot be satisfied in whatsoever it hath, unless it knows something of the principles and causes of the thing it hath, and when it knows the cause of one thing, it would know the cause of that, and nothing will quiet it till it comes to see the cause of all; and when it comes to know that, it hath full contentment: Shew us the Father, and it sufficeth.