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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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Thirdly, we shall see God in the Trinity: though 1there be but one God, yet there are divers persons: to see how the Father begot the Son, and how the Spirit did proceed from the Father and the Son, and the difference between the procession of the Spirit, and the generation of the Son; the sight of God in the mystery of the Trinity, is a most glorious thing.
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Fourthly, we shall see God in his glory, in Isa. 33. 117. there is a promise, They shall see the King in his beauty, or in his glory; there is a great deal of difference between seeing the King at an ordinary time, and seeing of him when he is in his Robes, with his Crown upon his head, and his Sceptre in his hand, and set upon his Throne, with all his Nobles about him in all his glory: so God does manifest himself a little now, but this is not all that he does intend: and for to see God now as he does manifest himself, is somewhat, but to see God in his greatest glory that ever he shall manifest himself in, that must be a great happiness.
Fourthly, we shall see God in his glory, in Isa. 33. 117. there is a promise, They shall see the King in his beauty, or in his glory; there is a great deal of difference between seeing the King at an ordinary time, and seeing of him when he is in his Robes, with his Crown upon his head, and his Scepter in his hand, and set upon his Throne, with all his Nobles about him in all his glory: so God does manifest himself a little now, but this is not all that he does intend: and for to see God now as he does manifest himself, is somewhat, but to see God in his greatest glory that ever he shall manifest himself in, that must be a great happiness.