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Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by John Field, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, There is a special presence of God amongst them; and to be there, where God is in his especial presence, it is worth the enduring of a great deal of affliction: God is there in a special manner, as in the last words of the prophecy of Ezekiel, the Church is called by that name, Jehovah Shammah, the Lord is there. And the Lord filled his Tabernacle with his presence: the Tabernacle was a type of the Church, and did typify his especial presence with his people in Church-communion.
Seventhly, There is a special presence of God amongst them; and to be there, where God is in his especial presence, it is worth the enduring of a great deal of affliction: God is there in a special maner, as in the last words of the prophesie of Ezekiel, the Church is called by that name, Iehova Shammah, the Lord is there. And the Lord filled his Tabernacle with his presence: the Tabernacle was a type of the Church, and did typifie his especial presence with his people in Church-communion.
And as God is there present, so observe the expressions of his especial presence; he is said to dwell there, Psal. 76. 2. In Salem is his Tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion: Now it is good keeping house with God. You are his house, saith the Apostle; the Church of God is his house, and it is good to be in Gods house. But though it be his dwelling, Is it a dwelling that is lovely to him? Yes, for it is that his soul desires to be in; as if so be God counted it a kind of honour (as we may speak with holy reverence) to have such a habitation; Psal. 132. 14. Here will I dwell, for I have desired it: as if he should say, If I might have but a dwelling among my people, I desire no better habitation in the world. Now you that are fain to be put into mean holes for your dwellings, if you may be with Gods people, do not think it much, for God dwells there, and desires no better habitation: It is strange that God that hath Heaven to be his habitation, should desire to dwell with his people, yet says he, I desire to dwell there, and I will dwell there.