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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.
Fifthly, what shall become then of ungodly and wicked men? Thus Saint Peter argues, 1. Epist. 4. 17, 18. Judgement must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us, what shall the end of them be, that obey not the Gospel of God? If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear? If it be done thus to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry? Behold, they whose judgement was not to drink of the cup, have assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shall go altogether unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished; but thou shalt assuredly drink of it, Jer. 49. 12. certainly there is shame and confusion for you, there are tortures prepared for you. You heard what the Martyrs have suffered, but all that is nothing to the least spark of Gods revenging wrath, when it is mingled with hatred.
Fifthly, what shall become then of ungodly and wicked men? Thus Saint Peter argues, 1. Epist. 4. 17, 18. Iudgement must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us, what shall the end of them be, that obey not the Gospel of God? If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear? If it be done thus to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry? Behold, they whose judgement was not to drink of the cup, have assuredly drunken, and art tbou he that shall go altogether unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished; but thou shalt assuredly drink of it, Ier. 49. 12. certainly there is shame and confusion for you, there are tortures prepared for you. You heard what the Martyrs have suffered, but all that is nothing to the least spark of Gods revenging wrath, when it is mingled with hatred.
That is a fearful expression that we have, Psal. 35. 6. Let their way be slippery, and the angel of the Lord persecuting them. It is a more fearful thing to have the Angel of the Lord persecute, then to be persecuted by men; but how fearful a thing is it, when God himself, that infinite Deity, when he persecutes a man? when Divine justice follows a man from one place to another and persecutes him? You look upon those poor despised misused Servants of God, and you think vilely of them; let those spectacles strike terror into your hearts every time you see them! O what is reserved for me then?