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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.
it is a point that was spoken of in the Primitive times, and afterward it was condemned upon this ground, because many grew to be sensual, and thought the Kingdom of Christ should be for a thousand years ⟨p. 455⟩in pleasure to the flesh: but take the Kingdom of Christ to be spiritual in the glory of his Ordinances, as I am confident that Christ shall reign Personally, in his flesh I will not say, but Spiritually, far more gloriously then he hath done.
it is a point that was spoken of in the Primitive times, and afterward it was condemned upon this ground, because many grew to be sensual, and thought the Kingdom of Christ should be for a thousand years ⟨p. 455⟩in pleasure to the flesh: but take the Kingdom of Christ to be spiritual in the glory of his Ordinances, as I am confident that Christ shall reign Personally, in his flesh I will not say, but Spiritually, farre more gloriously then he hath done.
But then at the day of Judgement, O the glory of those that suffer for Christ, they shall have Crowns upon their heads, and Palms in their hands, and all their persecutors stand as base creatures before them! O the embracings that there shall be then. If a father send his child abroad about business, and the child meet with much difficulty, and comes home in a rainy tempestuous day, how gladly his father receives him, and all are busy to tend on him, and to make a fire, and get him dry clothes! So when the people of God meet with such hardship in the world, when they shall come and meet with Christ for whom they have suffered, how shall they be entertained? What riches of glory shall they enjoy in the highest heavens for ever hereafter? our sufferings are but the seeds of our glory; and the deeper the furrows are, the more plentiful will the Harvest be: and therefore Gordius *the Martyr said, It is to my loss, if you bate me any thing in my sufferings. Are you reproached for Christ? Blessed are you; for the Brand of reproach (says Basil