Moses his self-denial delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews 11, the 24. verseMoses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse

First Faith makes the future good of spiritual and eternal things, to be as present to the soul,¹ & to work upon the soul as if they were present; and makes use likewise of things past, as if they were present; and in these operations of faith, there is much power to carry on the soul with comfort through sufferings; for present things are apprehended by the mind more fully, & work more strongly upon the will and affections, then things past or to come: if I view a thing afar off, it appears small to me, and little of what the thing is, is conceived by me: but if it be brought near to me, I see it to the full bigness, and am better able to judge of the nature of the thing as it is.

FIrst Faith makes the future good of spirituall and eternall things, to be as present to the soule,¹ & to worke upon the soule as if they were present; and makes use likewise of things past, as if they were present; and in these operations of faith, there is much power to carry on the soule with comfort through sufferings; for present things are apprehended by the minde more fully, & work more strongly upō the will and affections, then things past or to come: if I view a thing afarre off, it appeares small to mee, and little of what the thing is, is conceived by me: but if it be brought neere to me, I see it to the full bignesse, and am better able to judge of the nature of the thing as it is.

1. 11.

And again, it works more strongly upon my heart: if I see a toad a ⟨p. 164⟩great way off, my heart stirs not; but if I see it near, as Pharaoh saw the frogs crawling upon his bed, then my heart rises with loathing of it. If we could but see things now, as God hath told us they shall appear to us hereafter, how mightily would they work upon the soul, howsoever there are many things that shall be seen hereafter, that yet were never revealed, and those things faith cannot make as present: but such things as God hath revealed in his word, that they shall hereafter come to pass, faith may, and when it is active doth make them as present to the soul, & works them upon the heart, as if they did now appear.