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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, the power of God appears not only 1in the upholding, but in the raising the spirits of this servants in their afflictions, with what courage, holy magnanimity, heavenly cheerfulness that appeareth in them: even weak women and children, triumphing over the most sore afflictions, and grievous distresses, which made a Heathen, one Calocerius beholding 2this, break forth with this acclamation, Of a truth, great is the God of the Christians! Bernard says, Those whom God frees from troubles, have experience how sweet the Lord is; and those whom he exercises with many troubles, have experience how strong the Lord is. The glory of Gods power is as clear in the raising the spirits of his servants in suffering, as if he should deliver them from suffering by miracle. And therefore Rupertus saith, that God did more gloriously triumph in St. Laurence his patience and constancy when he was broiled on the Gridiron, then if he had saved his body from burning by a miracle.
Secondly, the power of God appears not onely 1in the upholding, but in the raising the spirits of this servants in their afflictions, with what courage, holy magnanimity, heavenly chearfulness that appeareth in them: even weak women and children, triumphing over the most sore afflictions, and grievous distresses, which made a Heathen, one Calocerius beholding 2this, break forth with this acclamation, Of a truth, great is the God of the Christians! Bernard says, Those whom God frees from troubles, have experience how sweet the Lord is; and those whom he exercises with many troubles, have experience how strong the Lord is. The glory of Gods power is as clear in the raising the spirits of his servants in suffering, as if he should deliver them from suffering by miracle. And therefore Rupertus saith, that God did more gloriously triumph in St. Laurence his patience and constancy when he was broiled on the Gridiron, then if he had saved his body from burning by a miracle.
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