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

It is the observation of one Interpreter upon that place in Isa. 6. where the Cherubims cried, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, the earth is full of thy glory: the Prophet cries out, Woe unto me, I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, unfit to join with those that are praising of God: howsoever the meaning of that place be, yet thus we may make use of it, to be a great affliction, and cause there is to cry out, Woe to our selves, when we hear of Gods people crying out, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts; if we be not amongst them, though it be in the wilderness, yet if Gods worship be set up, the people of God have a feast: When the Israelites were to go ⟨p. 252⟩from Egypt, into the wilderness, Moses says, they must go thither to keep a feast unto the Lord; What was that feast in the wilderness, but the setting up the worship of God?

It is the observation of one Interpreter upon that place in Isa. 6. where the Cherubims cryed, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, the earth is full of thy glory: the Prophet cryes out, Wo unto me, I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, unfit to joyn with those that are praising of God: howsoever the meaning of that place be, yet thus we may make use of it, to be a great affliction, and cause there is to cry out, Wo to our selves, when we hear of Gods people crying out, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts; if we be not amongst them, though it be in the wilderness, yet if Gods worship be set up, the people of God have a feast: When the Israelites were to go ⟨p. 252⟩from Egypt, into the wilderness, Moses says, they must go thither to keep a feast unto the Lord; What was that feast in the wilderness, but the setting up the worship of God?

Fourthly, no communion, no society in which there is so much profit and benefit, as to be amongst these.