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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.
Sixthly, there is nothing that is but for a season, 1can satisfy a gracious heart, but it must be some eternal thing, because such a one hath received light from God to understand the infinite consequence of eternity, to make any good to be infinite, or any evil to be infinite: When as one enjoys any good, and knows it shall continue infinitely, it makes that present good to have a kind of infiniteness in it; and and so for evil, if there be any evil upon the heart, though the evil should be never so little, yet if it be an evil, and the soul knows it must continue infinitely, it puts a kind of infiniteness to every moment; and that is the principal thing that makes the misery of the damned to be so miserable, and the happiness of the godly so happy; they are not only happy and miserable, because they shall be happy and miserable for ever, but because they know there is continuance in happiness, and in misery; their knowledge of this is that which puts infinite weight upon every moment.
Sixthly, there is nothing that is but for a season, 1can satisfie a gracious heart, but it must be some eternal thing, because such a one hath received light from God to understand the infinite consequence of eternity, to make any good to be infinite, or any evil to be infinite: When as one enjoys any good, and knows it shall continue infinitely, it makes that present good to have a kinde of infiniteness in it; and and so for evil, if there be any evil upon the heart, though the evil should be never so little, yet if it be an evil, and the soul knows it must continue infinitely, it puts a kinde of infiniteness to every moment; and that is the principal thing that makes the misery of the damned to be so miserable, and the happiness of the godly so happy; they are not onely happy and miserable, because they shall be happy and miserable for ever, but because they know there is continance in happiness, and in misery; their knowledge of this is that which puts infinite weight upon every moment.
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