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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.
It is the most unseemly sight in the world, to see a murmuring fretting Christian; if thy God, if Christ, if Heaven were lost, it were not much to see wringing of hands, and sinking of heart; but to see this upon loss of a few outward comforts, upon enduring of a few outward afflictions, this is a most unseemly, a vile and an abominable thing in thee. S. Augustine upon the 12. Psalm, brings in God, rebuking a discontented 1Christian, thus: What is thy faith? have I promised thee these things? what, wert thou made a Christian, that thou shouldest flourish here in this world? Well may God, and Conscience, and all the Saints, upbraid a murmuring fretting Christian; What didst thou expect in the entrance upon profession of Christianity? what was thy aim? what, didst thou make account to live at ease? to have no trouble to the flesh? Where there is not quiet of spirit in passive obedience, the sincerity of active obedience may be suspected: How far art thou from rejoicing in tribulations, who hast not a quiet contented spirit in tribulations?
It is the most unseemly sight in the world, to see a murmuring fretting Christian; if thy God, if Christ, if Heaven were lost, it were not much to see wringing of hands, and sinking of heart; but to see this upon loss of a few outward comforts, upon enduring of a few outward afflictions, this is a most unseemly, a vile and an abominable thing in thee. S. Augustine upon the 12. Psalm, brings in God, rebuking a discontented 1Christian, thus: What is thy faith? have I promised thee these things? what, wert thou made a Christian, that thou shouldest flourish here in this world? Well may God, and Conscience, and all the Saints, upbraid a murmuring fretting Christian; What didst thou expect in the entrance upon profession of Christianity? what was thy aim? what, didst thou make account to live at ease? to have no trouble to the flesh? Where there is not quiet of spirit in passive obedience, the sincerity of active obedience may be suspected: How far art thou from rejoycing in tribulations, who hast not a quiet contented spirit in tribulations?