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

Secondly, walk above the world, above all things that are here below, take heed of ensnarling your ¹hearts, & of too much mixing your selves with them. There is a generation whose names are written in the earth, Jer. 17. 13. and it beseems them to look after the things of the earth, because their portion is there, it is their All: but Gods people have their names written in heaven, and therefore they should not regard the things below as they do. Whosoever was free of the city of Rome, might not accept of any other freedom in any other city; they counted it a dishonour to the freedom of Rome, to take freedom any where else: So those that are free of the kingdom of Heaven, should not seek to be free here, but they should be satisfied with a mean ⟨p. 701⟩condition here, and take heed they do not entangle themselves too much in the things below.

Secondly, walk above the world, above all things that are here below, take heed of ensnarling your ¹hearts, & of too much mixing your selves with them. There is a generation whose names are written in the earth, Ier. 17. 13. and it beseems them to look after the things of the earth, because their portion is there, it is their All: but Gods people have their names written in heaven, and therefore they should not regard the things below as they do. Whosoever was free of the city of Rome, might not accept of any other freedom in any other city; they counted it a dishonor to the freedom of Rome, to take freedom any where else: So those that are free of the kingdom of Heaven, should not seek to be free here, but they should be satisfied with a mean ⟨p. 701⟩condition here, and take heed they do not entangle themselves too much in the things below.

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