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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.
Ambrose in his first Book de officiis, brings in 1godly men objecting thus, Why do the wicked rejoice? why do they riot it out? why do not they labour as well as I? He answers, They have not put in for the crown; yea, says he, if you object thus, the wicked may answer you as the spectators in their Olympiack games, if those that labour and wrestle in them, should call the spectators, and say, Come you, and labour, and strive here as well as we; the spectators would answer, You without us shall get the glory of the crown, if you overcome.
Ambrose in his first Book de officiis, brings in 1godly men objecting thus, Why do the wicked rejoyce? why do they riot it out? why do not they labor as well as I? He answers, They have not put in for the crown; yea, says he, if you object thus, the wicked may answer you as the spectators in their Olympiack games, if those that labor and wrastle in them, should call the spectators, and say, Come you, and labor, and strive here as well as we; the spectators would answer, You without us shall get the glory of the crown, if you overcome.
- 1Cur impi• letantur cur luxuriantur? cur etiam ipsi non mecum laborant? Non subscripserint ad coronam. Veni nobis. cum, &c. Laborate vos, sine nobis coronae gloriā, si viceritis vindi cabitis. Ambros. li. 1. offic c. 16.Cur impi• letātur cur luxuriantur? cur etiam ipsi non mecum laborant? Non subscripserint ad coronam. Veni nobis. cum, &c. Laborate vos, sine nobis coronae gloriā, si viceritis vindi cabitis. Ambros. li. 1. offic c. 16.
Besides, there is little cause we should envy all their jollity, they must give an account for it, and dear. When a Soldier was to dye for taking a bunch of grapes against the Generals command, and going to execution he went eating his grapes, one of his fellows rebuked him, What, are you eating your grapes now? The poor man answers, I pray thee friend do not envy me these grapes, for they cost me dear; so they did indeed, for they cost him his life: and so will these vain delights of wicked men, they will cost them their lives.