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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, is not the truth of God a rich jewel, a precious jewel? O any one truth is rich, we should prize 1it above our lives! O that faith that was once delivered 2to the Saints, how should we prize it! Buy the truth, sell it not: Buy it at any rate, sell it not upon any terms. The truth is that, that the blood, the lives of so many dear and precious Saints of God that were the glory of the world, have been laid out for the maintenance of, and well laid out too: For though God does esteem of the blood of his Saints, and precious in his eyes is the death of the Saints, yet God esteems highlier of his truth, that is worth the blood of all that have been spilt for the defence of it. The truth of God is the especial end for which the Son of God came into the world, and took mans nature upon him, to testify to the truth. The truth is more worth then rubies and all precious stones, then gold and silver: Whatsoever thou canst desire, is not to be compared to it; and though there be so many riches in the truth of God, yet how many are there that will rather betray the truth of God, lose the truth of God, rather then suffer reproaches.
Secondly, is not the truth of God a rich jewel, a precious jewel? O any one truth is rich, we should prize 1it above our lives! O that faith that was once delivered 2to the Saints, how should we prize it! Buy the truth, sell it not: Buy it at any rate, sell it not upon any terms. The truth is that, that the blood, the lives of so many dear and precious Saints of God that were the glory of the world, have been laid out for the maintenance of, and well laid out too: For though God does esteem of the blood of his Saints, and precious in his eyes is the death of the Saints, yet God esteems highlier of his truth, that is worth the blood of all that have been spilt for the defence of it. The truth of God is the especial end for which the Son of God came into the world, and took mans nature upon him, to testifie to the truth. The truth is more worth then rubies and all precious stones, then gold and silver: Whatsoever thou canst desire, is not to be compared to it; and though there be so many riches in the truth of God, yet how many are there that will rather betray the truth of God, lose the truth of God, rather then suffer reproaches.