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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
Moses his Choice. › Part 2 › Chapter 27: Exhortation to seek after eternal things.
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CHAP. XXVII. Exhortation to seek after eternal things.
The last Use, is an Use of Exhortation, that seeing nothing that is for a season, can satisfy the heart, what remains but that we should seek after that which is beyond a season, for the satisfaction of our hearts? Look at the things that will satisfy an immortal soul, let it be of the largest extent that can be, these cannot upon this ground, because they are but for a season: Then let our hearts be after eternal things. I am this day to speak to divers hundreds of you here, that must every one of you live in eternity one way or other, young and old, you must live in a time beyond this season: Now having to speak to you that must live eternally, this is that which I have to do, To get your hearts up, to seek after eternal things; and O that this might be done, if I should never preach more, and you should never hear more, yet if this should be obtained, that you should live eternally, that you should have your hearts got up to eternal things, you should be blessed, and I should think my self happy.
THe last Use, is an Use of Exhortation, that seeing nothing that is for a season, can satisfie the heart, what remains but that we should seek after that which is beyond a season, for the satisfaction of our hearts? Look at the things that will satisfie an immortal soul, let it be of the largest extent that can be, these cannot upon this ground, because they are but for a season: Then let our hearts be after eternal things. I am this day to speak to divers hundreds of you here, that must every one of you live in eternity one way or other, yong and old, you must live in a time beyond this season: Now having to speak to you that must live eternally, this is that which I have to do, To get your hearts up, to seek after eternal things; and O that this might be done, if I should never preach more, and you should never hear more, yet if this should be obtained, that you should live eternally, that you should have your hearts got up to eternal things, you should be blessed, and I should think my self happy.