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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.
Ninthly, How little love is there in thine heart to God, when thou art so shy of any thing to be suffered for God? love rejoices in suffering for the beloved. 1The avoiding hell, and the getting Heaven, are no great things, says Chrysostom, where the love of God is: then surely the avoiding outward troubles, 2and the enjoyment of outward comforts, would be no great matter to us, if the love of God were in us.
Ninthly, How little love is there in thine heart to God, when thou art so shy of any thing to be suffered for God? love rejoyces in suffering for the beloved. 1The avoiding hell, and the getting Heaven, are no great things, says Chrysostome, where the love of God is: then surely the avoiding outward troubles, 2and the enjoyment of outward comforts, would be no great matter to us, if the love of God were in us.
- 19.
- 2Chrysost. de amore Dei & tolerantia in adversis.
Tenthly, Did you never suffer affliction in your 1ways of sin? and will you not now be willing to suffer as much in the ways of God? Shall your sins have a greater testimony of respect to them from you, then God himself? Art thou nor confounded at the mention, the thought of such a thing as this, so unreasonable, so vile?
- 110.