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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.
The fifth particular, wherein the power of this argument consists, is the abundance of sweet that there is 1in the hope of this reward, to fill the heart with joy and peace; the more joy and peace the heart is filled withal, the more certainly it is able to do great things. So Nehemiah tells the people when he would have them rejoice, The joy of the Lord is your strength, Neh. 8. 10. When as the heart is strengthened with joy, it is able to do mighty things; now the hope of these glorious things do mightily fill the heart with joy, and so strengthens the heart: A man that hath his body strong, he can endure cold, and bear great burdens that a weak body cannot bear; and nothing strengthens the heart more then this joy of the Lord, where the heart is filled with it. Vessels that are empty will soon be broke with the heat of the fire, which they will not be if they be full: this hope of the glorious reward fills the heart with precious liquor, that you may set it by the fire, and put it into troubles, it will not break. As a Giant refreshed with wine, hath great strength to undertake any thing, so the soul that is filled with this comfort of the hope of Heaven and glory, can go forth as a Giant refreshed with wine, and make nothing of those things that others make great matters of. When the heart is filled with joy & hope of believing, and so filled with light within, ⟨p. 615⟩whatsoever darkness is abroad it cares not. As Oecolampadius when he was to dye, and they spoke of the light without, says he, What is the light without? 2I have light enough within; And so a gracious heart says, there is enough within to strengthen me, let there be without what there will. When Alexander gave away great things, almost all he had, one of his Officers asked him what he would have left for himself, says he, Hope: so says a gracious heart, though all things be gone, yet it is enough to fill my heart with joy, that I have hope of the glory that is to be revealed.
The fifth particular, wherein the power of this argument consists, is the abundance of sweet that there is 1