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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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Further, in the sight of God you shall see all things that do any way concern your selves in ordering of 1you to all eternity: and this is made by some the ground, why it is impossible for the Saints in Heaven in the least degree to fall there; because they shall have a continual view of God, and in him see fully all circumstances of all actions, and all things that any way do or shall concern them to all eternity. For there is no falling, or declining from God, but it comes at first from some ⟨p. 544⟩*error in the theoretical or practical work of the understanding, or in some inconsiderateness; but there cannot be the least error in the mind, or the least inconsiderateness; because the soul shall be so fully taken up with the sight of God: what an infinite delight must this needs be? It was the desire of a Philosopher to see the nature of the Sun, though it were to be burnt by it, he could be content; so if God should grant us this happiness, You shall come to see me, but the sight of me shall destroy you, this were a desirable thing; but to have a sight of God that is a perfecting sight, and such an excellent and glorious sight, in which our happiness shall consist for ever, how glorious must this needs be?
Further, in the sight of God you shall see all things that do any way concern your selves in ordering of 1you to all eternity: and this is made by some the ground, why it is impossible for the Saints in Heaven in the least degree to fall there; because they shall have a continual view of God, and in him see fully all circumstances of all actions, and all things that any way do or shall concern them to all eternity. For there is no falling, or declining from God, but it comes at first from some ⟨p. 544⟩*error in the theoretical or practical work of the understanding, or in some inconsiderateness; but there cannot be the least error in the minde, or the least inconsiderateness; because the soul shall be so fully taken up with the sight of God: what an infinite delight must this needs be? It was the desire of a Philosopher to see the nature of the Sun, though it were to be burnt by it, he could be content; so if God should grant us this happiness, You shall come to see me, but the sight of me shall destroy you, this were a desireable thing; but to have a sight of God that is a perfecting sight, and such an excellent and glorious sight, in which our happiness shall consist for ever, how glorious must this needs be?