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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.
First, that our rest is not here in this world; let us not promise to our selves any such matter, let us not seek it here: the promise will not bear it, the promise will bear no further, then that we should have only so much of the things of this world, as shall be suitable to our condition; That which the Prophet speaks in another case, Micah 2. 10. we may apply to all the things and places of the world; Arise, here is not your rest: this is not the place, this is not the time, here are not the things that God hath appointed for our rest: this is the 1place and time for troubles, and sorrows, and afflictions, our warfare is here. No man in his warfare, will build himself a strong and sumptuous house in the field; if we seek for our rest here, we mistake; ⟨p. 61⟩as if a man floating upon the waves of the sea, upon a board after shipwreck, should think to lie down and sleep, and settle himself there: or as a bird should build her nest in a bush, floating in the midst of the waves of the sea.
FIrst, that our rest is not here in this world; let us not promise to our selves any such matter, let us not seek it here: the promise will not bear it, the promise will bear no further, then that we should have onely so much of the things of this world, as shall be sutable to our condition; That which the Prophet speaks in another case, Micah 2. 10. we may apply to all the things and places of the world; Arise, here is not your rest: this is not the place, this is not the time, here are not the things that God hath appointed for our rest: this is the 1place and time for troubles, and sorrows, and afflictions, our warfare is here. No man in his warfare, will build himself a strong and sumptuous house in the field; if we seek for our rest here, we mistake; ⟨p. 61⟩as if a man floating upon the waves of the sea, upon a board after shipwrack, should think to lie down and sleep, and settle himself there: or as a bird should build her nest in a bush, floating in the midst of the waves of the sea.