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

Canst thou choose that for thy chief contentment, which was such a dreadful but then to Jesus Christ; that made the soul of Christ to be heavy to the very ⟨p. 150⟩death, that squeezed out clods of blood from him? What is the chief pleasure and delight of thy soul in that, which a true enlightened gracious heart would rather suffer all the torments in the world then do it? If so be it were put to him, either such a sin must be committed, or else all the tortures that can be devised by all the world must be inflicted upon him; A gracious heart had rather choose all the tortures that can be inflicted, then do that which thou makest the great pleasure of thy soul: What an infinite difference is between thy base heart, and a gracious heart? Thy wretched heart doth choose this deliberately, as the great pleasure of thy life, which a gracious heart ¹would rather suffer all the torments of the world, then be brought to do it. To delight in sins against conscience, is the most desperate folly in the world: No man rejoices in any error or fault in other things, but is rather ashamed; only in the errors, in the rule of life and obedience men owe to God, they rejoice in.

Canst thou choose that for thy chief contentment, which was such a dreadful but then to Jesus Christ; that made the soul of Christ to be heavy to the very ⟨p. 150⟩death, that squeazed out clods of blood from him? What is the chief pleasure and delight of thy soul in that, which a true enlightened gracious heart would rather suffer all the torments in the world then do it? If so be it were put to him, either such a sin must be committed, or else all the tortures that can be devised by all the world must be inflicted upon him; A gracious heart had rather choose all the tortures that can be inflicted, then do that which thou makest the great pleasure of thy soul: What an infinite difference is between thy base heart, and a gracious heart? Thy wretched heart doth choose this deliberately, as the great pleasure of thy life, which a gracious heart ¹would rather suffer all the torments of the world, then be brought to do it. To delight in sins against conscience, is the most desperate folly in the world: No man rejoyces in any error or fault in other things, but is rather ashamed; onely in the errors, in the rule of life and obedience men owe to God, they rejoyce in.