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

It may be some of your hearts when you hear ⟨p. 710⟩much of the wrath of God against sin, and the dreadfulness of Gods displeasure, your hearts are ready to rise, and belch, and these are hard things, and hard sayings, and who can bear them? but now you have not heard so much concerning that, but you have heard of the goodness of God, and of the glory of God, and of the riches of the grace of God, and of the wonderful thoughts that God hath for the everlasting good of mankind, how do your hearts work now? Shall your hearts stir when you hear Gods wrath, and when you hear of Gods grace shall not your hearts stir then? If God does intend good to any soul, he will cause that soul to see into the reality and excellency of these things, and that all things should be neglected (in comparison) in seeking after these.

It may be some of your hearts when you hear ⟨p. 710⟩much of the wrath of God against sin, and the dreadfulness of Gods displeasure, your hearts are ready to rise, and belk, and these are hard things, and hard sayings, and who can bear them? but now you have not heard so much concerning that, but you have heard of the goodness of God, and of the glory of God, and of the riches of the grace of God, and of the wonderful thoughts that God hath for the everlasting good of mankinde, how do your hearts work now? Shall your hearts stir when you hear Gods wrath, and when you hear of Gods grace shall not your hearts stir then? If God does intend good to any soul, he will cause that soul to see into the reality and excellency of these things, and that all things should be neglected (in comparison) in seeking after these.

Consider that God hath given unto you natures capable of these glorious things; God might have made you worms or brute beasts, and there would have been an end of you presently, you had not been any way capable of these things; but God hath made you of such a nature, such creatures, as ye are capable of the highest excellency that ever any creature that God made was capable of, and therefore being of such a nature, of such a large extent, it concerns you to seek after those things which might fill it; they are not little things that can fill large capacities, now mans nature an immortal soul, is of a large capacity; and when the time shall come that God shall discover to any soul what it was capable of, how infinitely will it be confounded in it self, when it shall know what poor things it sought after and minded? Men live here in the world as though they were