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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.
But why does God thus suffer wicked men, to enjoy their pleasure thus in the ways of sin?1
- 1Quest.
First, here is their portion, they are never like to have any other consolation, but that they have here, 1here is their All. This is as it were their Kingdom; They are upon their own dunghill.
First, here is their portion, they are never like to have any other consolation, but that they have here, 1here is their All. This is as it were their Kingdom; They are upon their own dunghil.
- 1Answ. 1. Why the wicked prosper in this world
Secondly, God hath time enough hereafter to torment them, to make sin bitter unto them, and 1therefore he does not care though they have their pleasure, and go on for a while in the enjoyment of their delights: And God hath time enough to glorify his Saints, to give them everlasting consolation, and therefore although here they be cut short of the pleasures of the flesh, God does not regard that.
Secondly, God hath time enough hereafter to torment them, to make sin bitter unto them, and