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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
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.
And spiritual: If it were to rejoice in the good that our bodies shall have, it were admirable joy, but the joy shall not be so much in regard of the happiness of our bodies, but in regard that God is our portion, it shall be spiritual; yea, the happiness of our 1bodies shall be spiritual and supernatural.
And spiritual: If it were to rejoyce in the good that our bodies shall have, it were admirable joy, but the joy shall not be so much in regard of the happiness of our bodies, but in regard that God is our portion, it shall be spiritual; yea, the happiness of our 1bodies shall be spiritual and supernatural.
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And it shall be full: How full must it needs be, 1they shall enter into their joy, because the joy cannot enter into them: We rejoice in believing with joy unspeakable and glorious: If the seed time be so glorious, how glorious will the harvest be? says Cyprian, 2They shall not taste, but they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: The fatness of Gods house in the world does abundantly satisfy the souls of Gods people, but the fatness of Gods house hereafter, how will that satisfy them? The people of God shall have such objects to rejoice in, as is the essential glory of God, and all the glory that is put upon him by all his creatures, and all the good they have by Gods communication of himself to them, and all the glory of one another: Look how many Saints shall be in heaven, they shall rejoice in every ones happiness as in their own; their own happiness will cause joy, but so many Saints as shall be happy, so many times shall their joy be double, and