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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, a gracious heart cannot be satisfied in 1any thing that is but for a season, because there is nothing that is but for a season, but it can make the end of it as really present; If so be that the end of things that are but for a season were present, they could not satisfy: Now a gracious heart makes the end of all things that are but for a season to be really present: If grace enables a man to make the things of God, and eternal things to be present, much more will grace in the heart make the end of all worldly things to be really present: Now a gracious heart being wise, and considering, and looking upon these things that are but for a season, as if the end now were; hence it is that it hath the same judgement of things that are but for a season now, as it ⟨p. 320⟩shall have when the end of all shall be: Now when the end of all things we enjoy for a season is come, 2then every man will see the vanity of them, and cry out of them, and say they will not satisfy: Yea, we shall not only see the vanity of them, but in some respect see it a greater misery, then if we had never enjoyed them; now that thing which will not only fail us, but when it shall fail us, it will be a greater vexation to us that we had them, then if we had never enjoyed it, certainly they which know this cannot be satisfied with it.
Seventhly, a gracious heart cannot be satisfied in 1any thing that is but for a season, because there is nothing that is but for a season, but it can make the end of it as really present; If so be that the end of things that are but for a season were present, they could not satisfie: Now a gracious heart makes the end of all things that are but for a season to be really present: If grace enables a man to make the things of God, and eternal things to be present, much more will grace in the heart make the end of all worldly things to be really present: Now a gracious heart being wise, and considering, and looking upon these things that are but for a season, as if the end now were; hence it is that it hath the same judgement of things that are but for a season now, as it ⟨p. 320⟩