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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 48: The blessedness of communion with God.
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and as the fullness of the delight of God in the Saints is, because God attains his end in them, how full must the delight of the Saints in God be, because the Saints do attain their end in God, the ⟨p. 560⟩end of all their thoughts, and ways, and performances? and they shall have no other object to let out their delight to, but only God: here, though we have some grace, yet the stream is divided, we let out so much to one creature, and so much to another; the children so much to the Parents, and the Parents so much to the children; and husband so much to the wife, and the wife so much to the husband, and so much to our friends, that the stream we let out to God is but little: but when all the delight that we let out to the creatures, shall be taken away, and God shall be the only object of our delight, then our delight must be full.
and as the fulness of the delight of God in the Saints is, because God attains his end in them, how full must the delight of the Saints in God be, because the Saints do attain their end in God, the ⟨p. 560⟩end of all their thoughts, and ways, and performances? and they shall have no other object to let out their delight to, but onely God: here, though we have some grace, yet the stream is divided, we let out so much to one creature, and so much to another; the children so much to the Parents, and the Parents so much to the children; and husband so much to the wife, and the wife so much to the husband, and so much to our friends, that the stream we let out to God is but little: but when all the delight that we let out to the creatures, shall be taken away, and God shall be the onely object of our delight, then our delight must be full.
And as this delight is mutual, so it shall be continual: for being withdrawn from all other objects, 1it will work upon that, both of them, Gods delight in the Saints, and the delight of the Saints in God, shall be for ever: the Saints shall be an eternal excellency, in which God shall delight, and God shall be an eternal excellency in which they delight, they shall be always keeping that feast of the Lamb. We read of Ahasuerus, he kept a glorious feast, and the gloriousness of it is set forth by the continuance of it,