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

The last Use is an Use of Exhortation to all, now to set your hearts to seek after these ¹great and blessed things of eternal life that have been opened: O that now the hearts of people that have been wandering after other things might be brought in, and set upon eternal life and Heaven: Let every soul reason with it self: Are there indeed such things to be had? hath God such intentions to communicate himself thus to mankind? And am I the man or woman that shall lose all this? that shall never be partaker of this? O woe unto me that ever I was born! In Luke 16. 16. The Law and the Prophets, says Christ, were till John, but since that time the kingdom of God suffereth violence: The Law and the Prophets did but darkly reveal the things of the Kingdom of God, but St. John he did more clearly reveal the things of that Kingdom, and since that time the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence: O that it might be said concerning any man or woman that have heard this argument opened; since that time that the recompense of reward was opened, the kingdom of heaven hath suffered ⟨p. 707⟩violence: Surely there is strength enough in that which hath been said to draw forth the heart with violence after it. I remember Plutarch reports in ²the life of Camillus of the Gauls, that after they had once a taste of the sweet wine of the grapes that grew in Italy, they inquired in what Country such sweet wine was, and after they understood where the grape of that wine grew, they would never be at rest till they got to that Country where such sweet and pleasant things grew. I have endeavoured in the opening of this point, to bring unto you some of the Clusters of Canaan, and some of that wine which is to be drunk in the Kingdom of Heaven; now if you account it to be sweet and good, let not your hearts be at rest till you come at that Country, till you come to enjoy the sweet and good of that Country.