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

In the Primitive times, the offence of the cross was taken away, after once they came to be enlightened in such glorious things as these; in Heb. 10. 32. Call to remembrance the former days, in which after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions; before they were not able to endure that fight of afflictions, but after they were illuminated they were; ⟨p. 625⟩so howsoever you might have some hard thoughts of the ways of God before, yet now being illuminated, having the light of this blessed truth of the reward that is to come, revealed to you, be willing to endure any fight of afflictions; do not look at this stumbling block, look up to Heaven, and that will keep you from stumbling. When men walk upon the earth, if they look upward, they may stumble upon stones & blocks; but it is otherwise in our walking in Religion, our looking upwards to heaven does keep us from stumbling: Wisdom is on high; the way of the righteous is a high way, he is lifted above all stumbling blocks by looking at this recompense of reward. St. Paul when he had his thoughts about this, says he, Neither life, nor death, principalities, nor powers, nor any thing should be able to separate him from the love of God.

In the Primitive times, the offence of the cross was taken away, after once they came to be enlightned in such glorious things as these; in Heb. 10. 32. Call to remembrance the former days, in which after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions; before they were not able to indure that fight of afflictions, but after they were illuminated they were; ⟨p. 625⟩so howsoever you might have some hard thoughts of the ways of God before, yet now being illuminated, having the light of this blessed truth of the reward that is to come, revealed to you, be willing to endure any fight of afflictions; do not look at this stumbling block, look up to Heaven, and that wil keep you from stumbling. When men walk upon the earth, if they look upward, they may stumble upon stones & blocks; but it is otherwise in our walking in Religion, our looking upwards to heaven does keep us from stumbling: Wisdom is on high; the way of the righteous is a high way, he is lifted above all stumbling blocks by looking at this recompence of reward. St. Paul when he had his thoughts about this, says he, Neither life, nor death, principalities, nor powers, nor any thing should be able to separate him from the love of God.