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

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 ⟨p. 174⟩we see pleasure in the other that is so low, and not in this, certainly we must pull out our eyes, and willingly besot our own hearts, if we yield not that the pleasure herein is abundantly more, and more glorious. So the pleasure of the eye, what is it but the visive spirit that is in the eye? meeting with colour abroad, it hath pleasure therein: If the visive spirit in the eye, which is a poor mean thing that brute beasts have as well as our selves, meeting with such a poor thing as the colour is, becomes such delight; what delight must be in exercising the highest faculties, about the highest objects? And so the smell is nothing but that humour in the nostrils, meeting with another humour that is without: And so of the ear, and of the touch; we might instance, there the delight comes from nothing but the exercise of the faculty about mean things; but if godliness exercises such glorious faculties, so elevated about such glorious objects, there must needs be a great deal of pleasantness.

Now I beseech you consider, if there be pleasure in joyning two such mean things together, the exercise of the humor in the spittle, meeting with a humor 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 kinde 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 kinde, God, and Christ, and Eternity? if ⟨p. 174⟩we see pleasure in the other that is so low, and not in this, certainly we must pull out our eyes, and willingly besot our own hearts, if we yield not that the pleasure herein is abundantly more, and more glorious. So the pleasure of the eye, what is it but the visive spirit that is in the eye? meeting with colour abroad, it hath pleasure therein: If the visive spirit in the eye, which is a poor mean thing that brute beasts have as well as our selves, meeting with such a poor thing as the colour is, becomes such delight; what delight must be in exercising the highest faculties, about the highest objects? And so the smell is nothing but that humor in the nostrils, meeting with another humor that is without: And so of the ear, and of the touch; we might instance, there the delight comes from nothing but the exercise of the faculty about mean things; but if godliness exercises such glorious faculties, so elevated about such glorious objects, there must needs be a great deal of pleasantness.