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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.
And secondly, do you find that you draw your principles that enables you to any good work from a Mediator? The natural principles come at highest but from reason, it sees reason for such and such things to be done; but a supernatural principle is drawn from a Mediator, from God-Man, from God in Christ, and by virtue of the promise, and so it comes to be an Evangelical obedience.
And secondly, do you finde that you draw your principles that enables you to any good work from a Mediator? The natural principles come at highest but from reason, it sees reason for such and such things to be done; but a supernatural principle is drawn from a Mediator, from God-Man, from God in Christ, and by vertue of the promise, and so it comes to be an Evangelical obedience.
And it hath supernatural ends, beyond self, and all 1self, and creature respects: That work that is natural rises no higher then nature in its ends; as the water ascends no higher then from the place it descends: so all natural works have some self or creature respects, but when you find your hearts are raised above self and creature respects in your obedience to God, there is a supernatural end.
And it hath supernatural ends, beyond self, and all 1self, and creature respects: That work that is natural rises no higher then nature in its ends; as the water ascends no higher then from the place it descends: so all natural works have some self or creature respects, but when you finde your hearts are raised above self and creature respects in your obedience to God, there is a supernatural end.
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