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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.
Your Honour hath appeared much for the Honour, the Safety, Peace, Liberties of the Saints and your Country; and how many now have their consciences check them, and shame is upon their faces for that base cowardice and vile time-serving, that the true nobility of your Lordships spirit (scorning such baseness) delivered you from. God hath now appeared for his people more then ever, in our or our Forefathers time, do you now appear more then ever for them; As God hath mightily enlarged the opportunity of service, so the good God enlarge and heighten with true Nobility and Christian generousness your Noble spirit, that you may be as a chosen shaft in the Quiver of the Lord, reserved to these times, to be in a high degree instrumental to his praise.
Your Honor hath appeared much for the Honor, the Safety, Peace, Liberties of the Saints and your Countrey; and how many now have their consciences check them, and shame is upon their faces for that base cowardise and vile time-serving, that the true nobility of your Lordships spirit (scorning such baseness) delivered you from. God hath now appeared for his people more then ever, in our or our Forefathers time, do you now appear more then ever for them; As God hath mightily enlarged the opportunity of service, so the good God enlarge and heighten with true Nobility and Christian generousness your Noble spirit, that you may be as a chosen shaft in the Quiver of the Lord, reserved to these times, to be in a high degree instrumental to his praise.
It is now near three years since that your Lordship lying sick, not without apprehension that Gods time to call you from the Land of the living was come, I was then for some time daily with your Lordship, and all the desires you expressed for life ⟨image 5⟩were, That you might live to do God service here: God then spared your life, and now my Lord, I beseech your Honour to give me leave to mind your Lordship of these desires, and those Covenants you made with God if ever he restored you. Surely the Vows of God are upon you, God hath now put an opportunity into your hand to fulfil them, and all other you have ever made unto him, and now he expects the performance of them; now there are opportunities of that service that may draw forth all that nobility of your spirit, wherein you may give testimony of thankfulness for all mercies so abundantly heaped upon you, and be faithful in performing of all your vows, and blessed be God for this opportunity: This is your honour, to account opportunity of service for God and his people your greatest honour upon earth.