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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.
CHAP. XXVIII. How we should know how it will be with us for eternity, and what we should do that it may be well with us eternally.
IF you say, How shall I know how it shall be with 1me for eternity? shall it be well, or not well with my soul when I am beyond things that are for a season? You may have some guess by those thoughts you have had upon things for eternity: you that have given liberty to your selves, to satisfy your selves in the things of the flesh, and your hearts have been fully satisfied in the things of the world, and this point is a strange point to you, you have cause to conclude with your selves, that you are in a miserable condition for eternity; but if your consciences can testify that this point, the getting of your hearts from things that are but for a season, and setting them upon the things that are eternal, is that which the Lord hath settled upon your hearts for many years, when you wake in the night, or in the morning, the same thoughts that are presented ⟨p. 341⟩to me by the Word, the Lord hath presented to me by his Spirit, the strength and chief of my thoughts have been busied about this argument. It is a good sign, that God does intend good for that soul to eternity, whom he is pleased to possess with the thoughts of it so deeply for the present.
IF you say, How shall I know how it shall be with 1me for eternity? shall it be well, or not well with my soul when I am beyond things that are for a season? You may have some guess by those thoughts you have had upon things for eternity: you that have given liberty to your selves, to satisfie your selves in the things of the flesh, and your hearts have been fully satisfied in the things of the world, and this point is a strange point to you, you have cause to conclude with your selves, that you are in a miserable condition for eternity; but if your consciences can testifie that this point, the getting of your hearts from things that are but for a season, and setting them upon the things that are eternal, is that which the Lord hath setled upon your hearts for many years, when you wake in the night, or in the morning, the same thoughts that are presented