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

CHAP. XVI. A spiritual eye can see an excellency in Gods people, though under great affliction.

The fourth Doctrinal Conclusion that ¹was raised from the words, was, That a spiritual eye can see an excellency in Gods people, though under never so great affliction.

THe fourth Doctrinal Conclusion that ¹was raised from the words, was, That a spiritual eye can see an excellency in Gods people, though under never so great affliction.

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Moses chooses rather to suffer affliction with the people of God. Who were this people? A despised people, an afflicted people; Yet Moses could see an excellency in them while they were making their brick, while they were whipped by their task-masters, and contemptible in the eyes of all the Egyptians; yet by the eye of faith Moses could look upon them as the most excellent of the earth, as the most glorious people that lived in the world, and desires rather to join with them, though ⟨p. 200⟩in the greatest afflictions, then to abide in Pharaoh's Court, in the enjoyment of all worldly delights; let the world cast what dirt they will upon them, and darken their glory what they can, yet they are precious and honourable in the Saints eyes, The excellent of the earth, and the glory of the world. Job scraping his sores upon the dunghill, and Jeremiah sinking into the mire in the dungeon, are more beautiful and glorious, then the great men of the earth, when they are crowned upon their Thrones; Though you have lien amongst the pots, says the Psalmist, yet you are as the wings of a Dove covered with silver, and whose feathers are covered with yellow gold.