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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, they are but for a little time, but for a moment: 1As it was the speech of Athanasius, when he was banished, and his friends came to bewail his misery, says he, It is but a little cloud, and will quickly 2be gone: All the time of the rage and malice of wicked men, is but as an hour; says Christ, This is their hour, and the power of darkness; it is but an hour, and is quickly gone. Christs sufferings both in himself and in his Church, is but drinking of the brook, not a spring of water for perpetuity.
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- 2Nuhecula est, citò transibit.
Besides, the afflictions of Gods people are in their 1season; it is now the very season to be afflicted, and shall we be troubled to have affliction in its season? this time of our life is appointed for this end, it is our winter time; will a man be troubled to see frost and snow in winter time? It is better to see frost and snow in winter time, then to see the corn blooming or earing ⟨p. 113⟩in January and February: so while we are in the body, the winter of affliction is in season, it is not the time to be delivered from affliction now, that is hereafter, and therefore why should we be troubled that we meet with affliction?
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