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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 14: The drawing mens hearts to a happy choice.
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CHAP. XIV. The drawing mens hearts to a happy choice.
The Lord then persuade thy heart to change 1thy choice; change it, or else thou art lost, better thou hadst never been born, then that thou shouldst not change thy choice; O that now thou hadst wisdom for eternity! whatsoever your ways have been, now at last in this your day, learn to know the evil of them, to renounce them, to embrace the ways of godliness, and let it be sufficient, that you have spent so much time in the ways of sin, and giving content to your flesh. O that this may be the day of your new choice, that you may bless God for this day, that God did this day dart in some truths, to turn the streams of thy soul another way, to make ⟨p. 159⟩another, choice! that there might be before thou goest out of the presence of God, a secret frame of spirit, surrendering thy soul unto God, being convinced of thy evil choice, and say, O Lord, how have I lived? What hath my course been? the Lord knows my course hath been to give content to my flesh, and to live bravely in my life; now God begins to make me afraid, lest I have been in a dangerous false way; the Lord have mercy upon me, what have I done? Is it not time to look about me? I have all this time miscarried in the choice of my soul for my everlasting estate, I have chosen the ways of death all this while.
THe Lord then perswade thy heart to change 1thy choice; change it, or else thou art lost, better thou hadst never been born, then that thou shouldst not change thy choice; O that now thou hadst wisdom for eternity! whatsoever your ways have been, now at last in this your day, learn to know the evil of them, to renounce them, to embrace the ways of godliness, and let it be sufficient, that you have spent so much time in the ways of sin, and giving content to your flesh. O that this may be the day of your new choice, that you may bless God for this day, that God did this day dart in some truths, to turn the streams of thy soul another way, to make