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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.
Secondly, they are an evidence to him of that difference that God hath made between others and him: 1there was a time, when as other men could close with me, and agree with me; now see what a difference there is, they nothing but contemn me and despise me: I might have gone on and have been a scorner and a mocker as they are; O the difference that God hath made between me and them! that God should call ⟨p. 444⟩me from them, who was as vile as they; and suffer them to be reproachers of godliness, and make me a sufferer for godliness! Jerome *writ to Augustine, that it was a great sign of glory to him, that all Heretics did hate him.
Secondly, they are an evidence to him of that difference that God hath made between others and him: 1there was a time, when as other men could close with me, and agree with me; now see what a difference there is, they nothing but contemn me and despiseme: I might have gone on and have been a scorner and a mocker as they are; O the difference that God hath made between me and them! that God should call ⟨p. 444⟩me from them, who was as vile as they; and suffer them to be reproachers of godliness, and make me a sufferer for godliness! Jerome *writ to Augustine, that it was a great sign of glory to him, that all Hereticks did hate him.
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- *Quod signum major is gloria est omnes Haretici letestantur Hyeron. ad August Epist. 25 inter Epistolas Augustini.