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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.
First, if the affliction be extraordinary, and come 1in an extraordinary way, and upon examination you ⟨p. 95⟩find your self not guilty of any special evil, besides daily incursions, then you may comfortably hope, 2Gods intentions are not specially for sin, but for some other end; so it was in Job and Joseph.
First, if the affliction be extraordinary, and come 1in an extraordinary way, and upon examination you ⟨p. 95⟩finde your self not guilty of any special evil, besides daily incursions, then you may comfortably hope, 2Gods intentions are not specially for sin, but for some other end; so it was in Job and Joseph.
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- 2How to discern Gods end in afflicting us.
Secondly, you may know from the work of the affliction, which way it tends, and how God follows 1it, whether in it God settles not sin upon your heart, for humiliation, more then ordinary: or whether the work of Gods spirit be not rather for the stirring up of the exercise of some other grace; for God in his dealings with his people, will work for the attaining the ends he aims at.