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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.
Thirdly, it hath been the only desire of gracious 1hearts heretofore; and if God hath wrought any grace in you, sure your grace is suitable to the grace of others, as David, in Psal. 27. 24. This one thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord: as if there were nothing were the object of Davids desires, but this one thing. And in Psal. 84. what abundance of expressions have we to set out his desires this way? David was here in his banishment; we do not find him complaining, O my Kingdom that I am like to lose! my brave Palaces, and my brave Chambers, Gardens and attendance that I am like to lose; but the house of God. And in Psal. 42. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! It was not after the enjoyment of God that he might have in his own soul privately, that his heart so panted after, but the appearing before the Lord in his house.
Thirdly, it hath been the onely desire of gracious 1hearts heretofore; and if God hath wrought any grace in you, sure your grace is suitable to the grace of others, as David, in Psal. 27. 24. This one thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord: as if there were nothing were the object of Davids desires, but this one thing. And in Psal. 84. what abundance of expressions have we to set out his desires this way? David was here in his banishment; we do not finde him complaining, O my Kingdom that I am like to lose! my brave Palaces, and my brave Chambers, Gardens and attendance that I am like to lose; but the house of God. And in Psal. 42. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! It was not after the enjoyment of God that he might have in his own soul privately, that his heart so panted after, but the appearing before the Lord in his house.