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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.
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But you will say, You take sin at the worst side at 1first, sin hath a delightful side, and that will please you, and allure you, though the other would not; therefore let us see the fairest side of sin; a gracious heart will look on every side.
- 1Obj.
The pleasures that you speak of, what are they? 1are they not fleshly? only reach to the sensual part? 2What, must God, Heaven, eternal life be neglected for these? What shall that body, that must within a while be gnawn on by worms, and lie rotting as a filthy carcass, now be so regarded, now have such content given to it, as all that is to be had in God and Jesus Christ, must be neglected for it? When thou shalt hereafter at the great Day meet with this wretched carcass of thine, and see how vile it is, what confusion will be upon thee? when thou shalt think, Was this the vile carcass that must have such content, for which God, and Heaven, and all the good in Christ is now lost for ever?
The pleasures that you speak of, what are they? 1are they not fleshly? onely reach to the sensual part? 2What, must God, Heaven, eternal life be neglected for these? What shall that body, that must within a while be gnawn on by worms, and lie rotting as a filthy carcase, now be so regarded, now have such content given to it, as all that is to be had in God and Jesus Christ, must be neglected for it? When thou shalt hereafter at the great Day meet with this wretched carcase of thine, and see how vile it is, what confusion will be upon thee? when thou shalt think, Was this the vile carcase that must have such content, for which God, and Heaven, and all the good in Christ is now lost for ever?