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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.
Sixthly, what intolerable pride, and delicacy is this in thee, that thou wilt not venture the loss of 1any thing, the enduring of any thing for God, and his truth? the least truth of God is worth more then 2heaven and earth; and what is thy ease, thy liberty, thy name, thy life to it? Thou art too delicate, O Christian, says Tertullian, who must have pleasure in this world.
Sixthly, what intolerable pride, and delicacy is this in thee, that thou wilt not venter the loss of 1any thing, the enduring of any thing for God, and his truth? the least truth of God is worth more then 2heaven and earth; and what is thy ease, thy liberty, thy name, thy life to it? Thou art too delicate, O Christian, says Tertullian, who must have pleasure in this world.
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- 2Nimis delicatus es Christiane, qui voluptatem hoc seculo concupiscis.
Seventhly, How vile is the unbelief of thy heart, 1who darest not trust God with thy name, estate, liberty? How canst thou trust God with thy soul, thy eternal estate? How lightly doest thou regard all the faithfulness, the mercy, goodness, wisdom, power of God, working for his people in their suffering conditions? Of what little account are all these gracious blessed promises of the Lord, for their encouragement herein? thy base shyness, and cowardice of spirit is such, as if there were no God, no faithfulness, mercy, wisdom, power to help, as if there were no promise to support and relieve thee.