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Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by John Field, 1650
Moses his Choice. › Part 1 › Chapter 15: The true pleasantness of all the ways of godliness.
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Thirdly, they are pleasantness, because they are 1the highest actions of the highest faculties, elevated by the highest principles, about the highest objects, and therefore must needs afford a great deal of pleasure. This is a special consideration of the pleasantness of the ways of godliness, and will let much of the excellency of them into your hearts. What is the highest pleasure of sense, but the highest exercise of the sensitive faculty about such an object as is suitable to sense? as there is a great deal of pleasure in meat and drink: Whence comes this? It comes from that exercise of the Salinal humour in the tongue and frame of the mouth, meeting with another humour in meat and drink, suitable to it, that is all the pleasure in the taste, which is the special pleasure that is sought for in the world.
Thirdly, they are pleasantness, because they are 1the highest actions of the highest faculties, elevated by the highest principles, about the highest objects, and therefore must needs afford a great deal of pleasure. This is a special consideration of the pleasantness of the ways of godliness, and will let much of the excellency of them into your hearts. What is the highest pleasure of sense, but the highest exercise of the sensitive faculty about such an object as is suitable to sense? as there is a great deal of pleasure in meat and drink: Whence comes this? It comes from that exercise of the Salinal humor in the tongue and frame of the mouth, meeting with another humor in meat and drink, suitable to it, that is all the pleasure in the taste, which is the special pleasure that is sought for in the world.
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Now I beseech you consider, if there be pleasure in joining two such mean things together, the exercise of the humour in the spittle, meeting with a humour in meat and drink suitable to it; what pleasure must needs be in the exercising, and acting of a creature, that is of the highest nature that ever God made creature; and these creatures raised with the highest principles for the kind that any creature is capable of, and exercised about the highest objects that it is possible for a creature to be exercised about for the kind, God, and Christ, and Eternity? if