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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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Many have the pleasures of the flesh, and their consciences struggling together; and many times the pleasures of the flesh, and conscience struggle a great while, before there be a victory on either side: sometimes conscience gets the victory, and there is a gracious work upon the soul, especially if God set on conscience, by some great affliction or sickness: sometimes conscience is overcome, though conscience does propound a better way, and they see, and are ⟨p. 155⟩convinced of it, yet at length lust overcomes, and conscience yields, and they become mere sots, hardened in the way of the lusts of their hearts; and this is a most dreadful thing, when ever this befalls any.
Many have the pleasures of the flesh, and their consciences strugling together; and many times the pleasures of the flesh, and conscience struggle a great while, before there be a victory on either side: sometimes conscience gets the victory, and there is a gracious work upon the soul, especially if God set on conscience, by some great affliction or sickness: sometimes conscience is overcome, though conscience does propound a better way, and they see, and are ⟨p. 155⟩convinced of it, yet at length lust overcomes, and conscience yields, and they become meer sots, hardened in the way of the lusts of their hearts; and this is a most dreadful thing, when ever this befals any.
Again, there are others that have had some taste of the ways of God, have begun to make a choice, 1and have tried the ways of Religion, and continued a while in them, and yet come to be weary and tired: yea, it may be some upon their sick-beds, and deathbeds, have cried out of the folly of their former choice; and yet, when God hath delivered them again, they have gone on in the same excess of riot, and giving liberty to the satisfying of the flesh, in the same way, if not in a further degree then ever formerly; what a dreadful thing is this! To all those that are thus deluded, in making this evil choice, let me speak a word or two.