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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.
God, says Bernard, hath not cast man out of Paradise, 1for him to think to find out another Paradise in this world; no, man is born to labour. Why do you seek the living amongst the dead? why do you seek for living comforts, where you must expect to dye daily? It is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; rest must be after labour, our rest is the crown of our labour; to seek it here, is to seek it preposterously, and Why do you require that in one place (says S. Ambrose) which is due in another? Why would you preposterously have the crown before you have overcome? Imagine the most settled condition you can in this world, and although you had it, yet it were but vanity: so says the Psalmist, Psal. 39. 5. Man in his best estate, is vanity: the word is in the Original, in his settled estate he is vanity; not only vain, but vanity it self.
God, says Bernard, hath not cast man out of Paradise, 1for him to think to finde out another Paradise in this world; no, man is born to labour. Why do you seek the living amongst the dead? why do you seek for living comforts, where you must expect to dye daily? It is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; rest must be after labour, our rest is the crown of our labour; to seek it here, is to seek it preposterously, and Why do you require that in one place (says S. Ambrose) which is due in another? Why would you preposterously have the crown before you have overcome? Imagine the most setled condition you can in this world, and although you had it, yet it were but vanity: so says the Psalmist, Psal. 39. 5. Man in his best estate, is vanity: the word is in the Original, in his setled estate he is vanity; not onely vain, but vanity it self.
- 1Non ad hoc nos de Paradiso voluptatis ejecit, ut alterum hic sibi Paradisum adinventio humana pararet homo ad laborem natus. Ber. declamat. Ecce reliqomnia. Quid alibi poscis quod alibi debetur? quid praeproperè coronam exigis antequam vin cas? quid cpulari gestis antequam stadium solvatur? Ambr. offic. l. 1. cap. 16.