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

If you had a gracious heart, if you saw one of Gods Servants go on in the way of God, and suffer in that way, though he had failed in some particulars, you would pass them by, and not be ready to take advantage, to speak against him for them: If a man do plead for the King, every circumstance is not taken up, and aggravated against him; and so for those that are for God, every circumstance should not be aggravated against them: It is better for one to be forward in Gods cause, though he should fail in some circumstances, then to be lukewarm. If a man be going earnestly, and do fall forward, there is not so much danger in that, as to fall backward: so a man that is forward in that which is good, though he may carry some things indiscreetly, and suffer somewhat that way, yet his fall is but forward, and there is not so much danger in that, as in a time-server, and apostate that falls backward, he may break his neck. And ⟨p. 222⟩therefore we should not aggravate the afflictions of the Saints, if they be right in the main, we should countenance them, and appear for them, though we venture something, as Moses here, he might have saved himself, and yet he had such a high esteem of Gods people, as he would venture all for them: but of this in the next Point.

If you had a gracious heart, if you saw one of Gods Servants go on in the way of God, and suffer in that way, though he had failed in some particulars, you would pass them by, and not be ready to take advantage, to speak against him for them: If a man do plead for the King, every circumstance is not taken up, and aggravated against him; and so for those that are for God, every circumstance should not be aggravated against them: It is better for one to be forward in Gods cause, though he should fail in some circumstances, then to be lukewarm. If a man be going earnestly, and do fall forward, there is not so much danger in that, as to fall backward: so a man that is forward in that which is good, though he may carry some things indiscreerly, and suffer somewhat that way, yet his fall is but forward, and there is not so much danger in that, as in a time-server, and apostate that falls backward, he may break his neck. And ⟨p. 222⟩therefore we should not aggravate the afflictions of the Saints, if they be right in the main, we should countenance them, and appear for them, though we venture something, as Moses here, he might have saved himself, and yet he had such a high esteem of Gods people, as he would venture all for them: but of this in the next Point.