Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Again consider, could you not wish in your hearts, ¹that you might live always? and that the content and delight in this world, in meat, and drink, and sports do satisfy you, and you think your selves happy in the enjoyment of them; certainly God hath not yet savingly made known the things of eternity to you. Those that God does prepare for his eternal mercies in Heaven, God does take off their hearts from all things in the world; that if it were put to your choice, though you might have a thousand worlds, you would not have them for your portion; no, there are more glorious, more excellent things for my soul to have, and therefore God forbid I should have my portion in these things, though they were to endure.

Again consider, could you not wish in your hearts, ¹that you might live always? and that the content and delight in this world, in meat, and drink, and sports do satisfie you, and you think your selves happy in the enjoyment of them; certainly God hath not yet savingly made known the things of eternity to you. Those that God does prepare for his eternal mercies in Heaven, God does take off their hearts from all things in the world; that if it were put to your choice, though you might have a thousand worlds, you would not have them for your portion; no, there are more glorious, more excellent things for my soul to have, and therefore God forbid I should have my portion in these things, though they were to endure.

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Augustine brings in Plotinus, acknowledging it the mercy of God to man, that his soul is in a mortal ¹body, that the body is not immortal, but that after a little time the bodies of men may be dissolved, and so their souls be there for ever where the soul of the world is; that is his expression.