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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.
yea, if Pharaoh and the Court should frown upon me, it is like they will be more enraged against them, and rather make their burden heavier, and their bondage sorer: Now then what a grievous thing would it be, that such an opportunity as I have in my hands should be lost?
yea, if Pharaoh and the Court should frown upon me, it is like they will be more enraged against them, and rather make their burthen heavier, and their bondage sorer: Now then what a grievous thing would it be, that such an opportunity as I have in my hands should be lost?
But Moses seeing Gods mind, that he would rather have him venture himself in joining with his people in affliction, and that this was the way, whereby God would honour himself by him, he was content to let go all those reasonings, and yield up himself to Gods own way: God will sometimes rather be honoured by the sufferings and afflictions of men in great Places (who one would think had large opportunities of service) then in any service that they shall or can do; and such men should be willing to submit to God herein: It is not what I or others think, how God may be honoured this way or another, but what the will of God is, which way he will be honoured; and God expects from men, not ⟨p. 4⟩only that they should seek his honour, but that they should seek it his own way: All the intentions and aims at the glory of God that can possibly be, are nothing; God cares not for them, if they be out of his own way. It was an excellent resolution of David, 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back again, but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here I am, let him do to me as seemeth good to him. We read of Heman, a man of admirable wisdom, one of the wisest upon earth in his time, as appears 1 King. 4. 31. and yet Psal. 88