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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.
John heard in that Chapter, in Verse 13. He heard all creatures in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the Sea, saying, Blessing, honour, glory and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever; that we might say Amen to this. If any man wish good to us, we count it worthy of love; but the Lord Christ having wrought such infinite good for us as this, how should our hearts be inflamed to him, and that none should be dear to us, and prized of us in comparison of Christ: Let us cry out with that blessed Martyr, None but Christ, none but Christ.
John heard in that Chapter, in Verse 13. He heard all creatures in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the Sea, saying, Blessing, honor, glory and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever; that we might say Amen to this. If any man wish good to us, we count it worthy of love; but the Lord Christ having wrought such infinite good for us as this, how should our hearts be enflamed to him, and that none should be dear to us, and prized of us in comparison of Christ: Let us cry out with that blessed Martyr, None but Christ, none but Christ.
Again, how should our souls love the Gospel, and prize the Gospel, that hath revealed all this to us? In 2 Tim. 1. 10. it is said, Life and immortality is brought to light by the Gospel: These are the things that ⟨p. 657⟩in comparison were kept hid from the beginning of the world, before the manifestation of the Gospel, but now they are revealed: O blessed be God that we had the preaching of the Gospel amongst us, to open the treasures of grace to us in this manner. What poor low thoughts should we have had of the happiness of mankind, had not God made known these glorious things in the Ministry of the Gospel? Many wise men by the light of nature have risen high in the contemplations of happiness, that mans nature is capable of, but how far beneath these things have their highest thoughts been? It is a great part of the glory of the Gospel, that it sets out unto us these high and glorious things.