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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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Sixthly, they shall see God as he is, 1 John 3. 2. now there is a great deal in that to see God as he is; 1and for explication of that, there are these five branches.
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That is first not to see him only negatively, that is, not to see him as he is: the most that we see of 1God now, is by way of negation, rather then any positive sight; when we say of God he is incomprehensible, that is, he is such a God as cannot be comprehended, that's but negation: when we say of God that he is infinite, that is, such a God as hath no bounds of his being, this is still a negation, to say what God is not: and when we say God is a spirit, though the expression seem to have an affirmation in it, yet it is but the apprehension of God rather by negation, that is, that God hath no bodily substance in him; for to speak properly, God is not a Spirit; but only that is the most excellent thing that we can conceive of, and by way of negation, that he is no body, and is invisible, one that we cannot see, and feel, and the like: when we say he is holy, he hath no spot of sin, ⟨p. 539⟩this is by way of negation, but now in Heaven we shall not see God only by negation, but we shall see that positive excellency of God, we shall see him as he is.
That is first not to see him onely negatively, that is, not to see him as he is: the most that we see of 1God now, is by way of negation, rather then any positive sight; when we say of God he is incomprehensible, that is, he is such a God as cannot be comprehended, that's but negation: when we say of God that he is infinite, that is, such a God as hath no bounds of his being, this is stil a negation, to say what God is not: and when we say God is a spirit, though the expression seem to have an affirmation in it, yet it is but the apprehension of God rather by negation, that is, that God hath no bodily substance in him; for to speak properly, God is not a Spirit; but only that is the most excellent thing that we can conceive of, and by way of negation, that he is no body, and is invisible, one that we cannot see, and feel, and the like: when we say he is holy, he hath no spot of sin,