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

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 ⟨p. 711⟩capable of no other happiness but meat, and drink, and clothes, and such kind of things, as if there were no higher things that concerned the souls of men. Heathens were mighty inquisitive what should be the true happiness of man, they did think surely man was made for higher things then those that are here, and there were mighty disputes about it what it should be, there were fourscore Opinions that were amongst them about the happiness of man; they did but beat the bush, God hath given us Christians the bird, and we have the Gospel that reveals glory, and immortality, and happiness unto us.

Consider that God hath given unto you natures capable of these glorious things; God might have made you worms or bruit 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 ⟨p. 711⟩capable of no other happiness but meat, and drink, and clothes, and such kinde of things, as if there were no higher things that concerned the souls of men. Heathens were mighty inquisitive what should be the true happiness of man, they did think surely man was made for higher things then those that are here, and there were mighty disputes about it what it should be, there were fourscore Opinions that were amongst them about the happiness of man; they did but beat the bush, God hath given us Christians the bird, and we have the Gospel that reveals glory, and immortality, and happiness unto us.