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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.
Fifthly, yet we ought to look at God, and to lift up 1God beyond our selves, or any thing that concerns our selves, and not to aim at God more then any worldly thing only; but to aim at God more then at the glory of Heaven.
Fifthly, yet we ought to look at God, and to lift up 1God beyond our selves, or any thing that concerns our selves, and not to aym at God more then any worldly thing onely; but to aym at God more then at the glory of Heaven.
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But yet further, though we are to aim at God beyond 1our own good any way, yet it is the will of God that he would not have us to part with any of our spiritual good, no not for any glory to his own name: if you look at your reward in Heaven as spiritual, you may so far look at it, as not to be willing to part with it, for any glory that you conceive may come to God: by spiritual good, I mean grace. Now if it could be supposed that God should have never so much glory by my abating the least degree in grace, yet I am so bound to the work of grace, as I must not abate the least degree for the highest glory that can come to God; yea, though it is true I am to desire the glory of God, and that others should glorify God: yet I should more desire the furtherance of grace in my own soul, so as I should not be willing to part with the least degree of grace, though thereby all the world should glorify God.
But yet further, though we are to aym at God beyond 1our own good any way, yet it is the will of God that he would not have us to part with any of our spiritual good, no not for any glory to his own name: if you look at your reward in Heaven as spiritual, you may so far look at it, as not to be willing to part with it, for any glory that you conceive may come to God: by spiritual good, I mean grace. Now if it could be supposed that God should have never so much glory by my abating the least degree in grace, yet I am so bound to the work of grace, as I must not abate the least degree for the highest glory that can come to God; yea, though it is true I am to desire the glory of God, and that others should glorifie God: yet I should more desire the furtherance of grace in my own soul, so as I should not be willing to part with the least degree of grace, though thereby all the world should glorifie God.