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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 13: The evil of an ill choice, discovered.
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A. Gellius tells of Caligula, that he made one supper that cost three hundred thousand Crowns. I have read also of Vitellius the Emperor, that at one supper he was served with Two thousand sorts of fishes, and Seven thousand several fowls. In such profuse expenses, for the satisfying of the flesh, how many do glory, as if it were the highest happiness attainable upon the earth? And the baser sort of people, 1seeing the great ones set upon such a kind of life, in satisfying the flesh, they think there is no other happiness to be had; therefore all their care, thoughts, endeavours are, how they may live jocundly, and give satisfaction to their lusts. Clemens Alexandrinus tells of a fish that hath the heart in the belly, differing from other living Creatures, which the Philosophers call the Sea-Ass: This is like sensual men whose hearts are only set upon the things of the belly; so as it may be said of many in regard of satisfying the flesh, as Aurelianus said of one ⟨p. 147⟩Bonoses, He was born, not that he might live, but that he might drink; So do these seem to be born, 2not that they might live, but that they might eat and drink, and pamper the flesh; the whole world is too strait to some for the pampering their 3bellies.
A. Gellius tells of Caligula, that he made one supper that cost three hundred thousand Crowns. I have read also of Vitellius the Emperor, that at one supper he was served with Two thousand sorts of fishes, and Seven thousand several fowls. In such profuse expences, for the satisfying of the flesh, how many do glory, as if it were the highest happiness attainable upon the earth? And the baser sort of people, 1seeing the great ones set upon such a kinde of life, in satisfying the flesh, they think there is no other happiness to be had; therefore all their care, thoughts, endeavors are, how they may live jocundly, and give satisfaction to their lusts. Clemens Alexandrinus tells of a fish that hath the heart in the belly, differing from other living Creatures, which the Philosophers call the Sea-Ass: This is like sensual men whose hearts are onely set upon the things of the belly; so as it may be said of many in regard of satisfying the flesh, as Aurelianus said of one