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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
Moses his Choice. › Part 1 › Chapter 11: Afflicted godliness, is better then delightful wickedness.
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.
Thus a godly man, a gracious heart considering and musing of things, and laying one thing with another, had rather have affliction with the people of God, then enjoy all the pleasures of the world for a season. Now the main work in this point, is to show unto you, how a godly heart doth reason with its self, and cast about its self, as it were to bring ⟨p. 107⟩himself, and his thoughts to this issue, to choose rather afflicted godliness, then all the pleasure of sin.
Thus a godly man, a gracious heart considering and musing of things, and laying one thing with another, had rather have affliction with the people of God, then enjoy all the pleasures of the world for a season. Now the main work in this point, is to shew unto you, how a godly heart doth reason with its self, and cast about its self, as it were to bring ⟨p. 107⟩himself, and his thoughts to this issue, to choose rather afflicted godliness, then all the pleasure of sin.
First, it casts about what the ways of godliness 1are.
- 1Why afflicted godliness is preferred before delightful wickedness.Why afflicted godliness is preferred before delightful wickednes.
Secondly, what those afflictions are that do attend the ways of godliness.