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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.
Secondly, God communicates his mercies more 1fully then any where else: Isa. 25. 6. And in this mountain, that is, in the Church, I will make a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, &c. and Psal. 36. 8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures: In a private way there may be some drops of pleasure ⟨p. 259⟩from God, but there is not that full communication from God, as with his people in his Ordinances: there is in the world, in the creature drops, in private communion there are ponds, but in a public Church communion, there are rivers of pleasure, and that is the height of all.
Secondly, God communicates his mercies more 1fully then any where else: Isa. 25. 6. And in this mountain, that is, in the Church, I will make a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, &c. and Psal. 36. 8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures: In a private way there may be some drops of pleasure ⟨p. 259⟩from God, but there is not that full communication from God, as with his people in his Ordinances: there is in the world, in the creature drops, in private communion there are ponds, but in a pulique Churchcommunion, there are rivers of pleasure, and that is the height of all.
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