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

WE are now come to the sixth doctrinal ¹Point that we have here in this part of Moses choice, That the enjoyment of communion with Gods people, is worth the enduring of a great deal of affliction. Moses chooses to suffer affliction with the people of God; he saw they were Gods people, and that it was a good thing to be with them, and therefore rather then he would not be with them, he was content to lose all the honours of Pharaohs Court, and put himself under the sorest affliction that he could meet withal, nothing should hinder him from joining with them.

WE are now come to the sixth doctrinal ¹Point that we have here in this part of Moses choice, That the enioyment of communion with Gods people, is worth the enduring of a great deal of affliction. Moses chooses to suffer affliction with the people of God; he saw they were Gods people, and that it was a good thing to be with them, and therefore rather then he would not be with them, he was content to lose all the honors of Pharaohs Court, and put himself under the sorest affliction that he could meet withal, nothing should hinder him from joyning with them.

1. 1Doct. 6.

In the worst times of the Church, wherein the hardest things were to be suffered in joining with Gods people, yet even then would those who had gracious hearts choose to be with them upon the hardest terms, rather then to be from them with all outward ease, and carnal delight. It was a very ill time when there was a separation between the ten Tribes, and the rest, when the ten Tribes left the Temple, left the Ordinances of God, and followed after Jeroboam; this was a very hard time, and the rather because Jeroboam set watchers, to observe who would go from him unto Judah to join with Gods people there, for ⟨p. 244⟩