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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
Moses his Choice. › Part 3 › Chapter 46: The happiness of the beatifical vision discovered.
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Secondly, they shall see God in his unity; whereas now we understand God only according to his 1several Attributes, as the manifestation of the Infinite Simple: First, being in one way we call Power, in another way we call Mercy and Bounty, in another way Justice, and so we apprehend God according unto the several Attributes that God hath manifested himself in; whereas there are not many things in God, but all those several Attributes that we apprehend diversly, are but one excellency in God: ⟨p. 537⟩as one beam of the Sun shining through a red glass, causes a red reflection; and the same Sun shining through a blue glass, causes a blue reflection; and so the same excellency of God shining one way, and working after one manner, we call by one name; and the same excellency of God working another way, we call by another name, and yet it is all one in God; and though we cannot apprehend it now, yet we shall see God in his unity afterward.
Secondly, they shall see God in his unity; whereas now we understand God onely according to his 1several Attributes, as the manifestation of the Infinite Simple: First, being in one way we call Power, in another way we call Mercy and Bounty, in another way Justice, and so we apprehend God according unto the several Attributes that God hath manifested himself in; whereas there are not many things in God, but all those several Attributes that we apprehend diversly, are but one excellency in God: ⟨p. 537⟩as one beam of the Sun shining through a red glass, causes a red reflection; and the same Sun shining through a blue glass, causes a blue reflection; and so the same excellency of God shining one way, and working after one maner, we call by one name; and the same excellency of God working another way, we call by another name, and yet it is all one in God; and though we cannot apprehend it now, yet we shall see God in his unity afterward.
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