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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.
O beloved! for preparation to hear these things, that we had spiritual hearts, says one, It is not for your carnal, base, sensual, voluptuous spirits to hear of those things: For those that know no better things, then to eat, and drink, and to be unclean, what is it for them to hear of such excellent things? As for the pleasures of the flesh, they do infect and defile the soul, and make it unfit for the hearing of such things, we had need of spiritual ears to hear them. God says to Abraham in Genes. 13. 16. I will make thy seed to be as the dust of the earth: afterward in Gen. 15. 5. he says, He will make his seed as the stars of heaven: The seed of Abraham are of two sorts. Some are of the seed of Abraham that are visible members of a Church, and yet have earthly ⟨p. 531⟩hearts: but there are others of his seed, and they are as the stars of Heaven, of spiritual hearts: now as we are of the seed of Abraham outwardly in profession, let us not be of that seed that are of the dust of the earth, only fit to hear of earthly things; but let us show that we are of the seed of Abraham, that are as the stars of Heaven, and shall hereafter come to enjoy the God of Heaven.
O beloved! for preparation to hear these things, that we had spiritual hearts, says one, It is not for your carnal, base, sensual, voluptuous spirits to hear of those things: For those that know no better things, then to eat, and drink, and to be unclean, what is it for them to hear of such excellent things? As for the pleasures of the flesh, they do infect and defile the soul, and make it unfit for the hearing of such things, we had need of spiritual ears to hear them. God says to Abraham in Genes. 13. 16. I will make thy seed to be as the dust of the earth: afterward in Gen. 15. 5. he says, He will make his seed as the stars of heaven: The seed of Abraham are of two sorts. Some are of the seed of Abraham that are visible members of a Church, and yet have earthly ⟨p. 531⟩