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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 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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And then they are performed in a supernatural 1manner. Seneca hath this expression of desires; You may know it is not a natural desire when it rises beyond ⟨p. 694⟩bounds: He applies it to evil desires, when a man desires things without bounds, that is no natural desire: Now that which he applies to the corruption of nature, we may rather apply to the perfection of nature. All the desires of nature are such as are limited in a narrow compass; no natural man in the world does go on in the ways of obedience with an infinite desire to dilate himself infinitely as far as he is capable, but is always limited in a little narrow compass, so far he will go, and no further; but when the soul comes to walk with God in a way of supernatural obedience, it comes to be without bounds, all those bounds that did limit the soul are taken away, and there is a letting out of the heart to God in the ways of godliness in an infinite manner; and this is a most clear evidence of a supernatural work, that will go for currant in Heaven, and shall be rewarded there; there is the impression of Gods infiniteness upon the heart in every work that is performed; examine whether your works be not like those that the Apostle speaks of, in