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

Carnal and sensual hearts, because they have ¹no principles of Gods grace, to show them the great things of God, and the mind of God, they think no man can know; we must have hopes, and hope ⟨p. 661⟩well, but who can know what God hath in heaven for us? Those that are acquainted with the mysteries of God in the Gospel, they know what Gods mind hath been from all eternity concerning them, and what God will do for them to all eternity. How do they know?

Carnal and sensual hearts, because they have ¹no principles of Gods grace, to shew them the great things of God, and the minde of God, they think no man can know; we must have hopes, and hope ⟨p. 661⟩well, but who can know what God hath in heaven for us? Those that are acquainted with the mysteries of God in the Gospel, they know what Gods minde hath been from all eternity concerning them, and what God will do for them to all eternity. How do they know?

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First, would you know whether you shall have this ¹Recompense of reward? Have you made Moses Choice? Certainly, those that have made Moses Choice, shall have Moses Reward: What Moses Choice was you have heard, Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season: Moses might have had honour and esteem enough in Egypt, but he accounted afflictions with the people of God, in Gods ways a great deal better; He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches then all; so I may have Christ and communion with his people, let me be reproached, and contemned, and despised, I care not. Now do you find this? Though there was a time my heart was taken with the glittering shows of things here, and I saw no excellency in the ways of God, they were but notions to me; at length God wrought mightily upon my soul, and showed me the vanity of all things that I accounted for glorious things, and showed me a beauty in Gods people, and began to knit my heart to them, so as I was willing to part with any thing to have communion with them, and to venture all upon the bare word and promise of God, for those glorious things that are revealed in it, and this choice I have made, and my soul is settled in it, whatsoever befalls me in this world; hath there been such a work upon your souls, that you have