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

Name: Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Author: Jeremiah Burroughs

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.

Jeremiah Burroughs 1599–1646London: printed by John Field, 1650

[16], 722 p. · 215k words · Wing B6095 · ESTC R8121

Title page: Duke University Libraries copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Moses his Choice. › Part 3 › Chapter 48: The blessedness of communion with God.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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now those objects in which Gods highest end is fulfilled, he must needs take delight in, and that shall be in the Saints. Again, the delight of God must be full, because God hath no other object, but rational ¹creatures, Angels and Saints to let out his delight to; if God does take any delight in any creature here, it is in order to the Angels and the Saints: Now when God hath no other object to himself, and his Son, and his Spirit, to let out his delight unto, but the rational Creatures, Saints and Angels, joined in one (for the Lord Christ shall be the head of the Saints and Angels) surely his delight in them shall be full.

now those objects in which Gods highest end is fulfilled, he must needs take delight in, and that shall be in the Saints. Again, the delight of God must be full, because God hath no other object, but rational ¹creatures, Angels and Saints to let out his delight to; if God does take any delight in any creature here, it is in order to the Angels and the Saints: Now when God hath no other object to himself, and his Son, and his Spirit, to let out his delight unto, but the rational Creatures, Saints and Angels, joyned in one (for the Lord Christ shall be the head of the Saints and Angels) surely his delight in them shall be full.

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Thirdly, this delight shall be actual; and that is necessary to communion; for though there be delight, ¹yet if it should lie dead in the habits, there is no communion: If two friends have habitual delight one in another, they are not said to have communion, but when it is actual, so this delight shall be actual; the nature of delight is to be lively and active, even in us, though it be but an affection in us; but God being a pure act, there will be an infinite activity in his delight, and it is always vigorous and fresh, so as God shall make the souls of his people to be sensible of the activity of his delight. Fourthly, this delight shall be mutual, it shall be on the Saints part,

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The book

Title as printed

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.

Author

Jeremiah Burroughs 1599–1646

Place

London

Printer

John Field

Year

1650

Size

[16], 722 p.

Words

214,953

Catalogue

Wing B6095 · ESTC R8121

Text

EEBO-TCP A30592

Passages

1,426

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XLIX. The happiness of the Saints in their fruition of God, and their perfect rest in him.