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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And as this delight is mutual, so it shall be continual: for being withdrawn from all other objects, 1it will work upon that, both of them, Gods delight in the Saints, and the delight of the Saints in God, shall be for ever: the Saints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, Esther 1. 4, 5. it is observable, the difference between the feast that he made with his Nobles, and the feast that he made with the common people, and that may lively set out the difference of the goodness of God that he lets out to his own people, and that he lets out to other common people; he made a feast of a hundred and fourscore days to his Nobles, and but seven days to the common people: so when God comes to make a feast of joy to his people, it shall be everlasting. Men in the world ⟨p. 561⟩have some content, but it is but for a little time; but the comfort and joy that is to be between God and the Saints in Heaven, is to be eternal, because it is such a feast as is made to his Nobles, and to show the riches of his glorious Kingdom, and the honour of his Majesty.
And as this delight is mutual, so it shall be continual: for being withdrawn from all other objects, 1it will work upon that, both of them, Gods delight in the Saints, and the delight of the Saints in God, shall be for ever: the Saints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, Esther 1. 4, 5. it is observable, the difference between the feast that he made with his Nobles, and the feast that he made with the common people, and that may lively set out the difference of the goodness of God that he lets out to his own people, and that he lets out to other common people; he made a feast of a hundred and fourscore days to his Nobles, and but seven days to the common people: so when God comes to make a feast of joy to his people, it shall be everlasting. Men in the world