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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.
Again, these afflictions that the world so speak of, they may not only stand with Gods dearest love, but are such as may proceed from Gods dearest love; as thus, they may come as fruits of the love of God, and therefore sure they are no great discouragements from the ways of godliness; you heard what abundance of good God brought out of the afflictions of his people, and therefore there may be abundance of love from whence they come, they may be only but to fit, and square, and fashion the soul, to be fit to be laid in the highest place of new Jerusalem: The stones that are laid below in some mean place, are not hewed and hacked, as the stones that are in the highest part of the building, or the forefront of the building, to the view of all; those that are most for the beauty of the building, are most hacked, and framed; and so those that God does intend to be the most beautiful stones in that glorious Temple that is in Heaven, God suffers them here to be fashioned and ⟨p. 112⟩hacked, most afflicted, and therefore they may come from love.
Again, these afflictions that the world so speak of, they may not onely stand with Gods dearest love, but are such as may proceed from Gods dearest love; as thus, they may come as fruits of the love of God, and therefore sure they are no great discouragements from the ways of godliness; you heard what abundance of good God brought out of the afflictions of his people, and therefore there may be abundance of love from whence they come, they may be onely but to fit, and square, and fashion the soul, to be fit to be laid in the highest place of new Jerusalem: The stones that are laid below in some mean place, are not hewed and hacked, as the stones that are in the highest part of the building, or the forefront of the building, to the view of all; those that are most for the beauty of the building, are most hacked, and framed; and so those that God does intend to be the most beautiful stones in that glorious Temple that is in Heaven, God suffers them here to be fashioned and ⟨p. 112⟩hacked, most afflicted, and therefore they may come from love.