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

Turkish History tells us, that the very Camels that are used to go to Mahomets Tomb, are ever after of high esteem amongst them, so as they never ⟨p. 212⟩after use them in any mean servile way as they did before: Though things be never so mean, yet by the use they become honourable; no use so honourable as that of the Saints, where this is seen with a discerning eye, they are exceeding honourable. They are the great blessing of the world: Isa. 19. 24. there is a promise that Israel should be a blessing in the midst of the Land. Gods people, wheresoever they are, are a blessing to that Country, a blessing to the world, howsoever despised of the world; put all these together, and surely they are precious.

Turkish History tells us, that the very Camels that are used to go to Mahomets Tomb, are ever after of high esteem amongst them, so as they never ⟨p. 212⟩after use them in any mean servile way as they did before: Though things be never so mean, yet by the use they become honorable; no use so honorable as that of the Saints, where this is seen with a discerning eye, they are exceeding honorable. They are the great blessing of the world: Isa. 19. 24. there is a promise that Israel should be a blessing in the midst of the Land. Gods people, wheresoever they are, are a blessing to that Country, a blessing to the world, howsoever despised of the world; put all these together, and surely they are precious.

Lastly, a spiritual eye looks upon Gods people as ¹precious, notwithstanding all outward meanness, because it looks upon them as in their ends, though they are now incomparably above all that is in the world besides, yet their glorious end raiseth their worth exceeding high, and a spiritual eye looks much at the end and issue of things, and therefore looking