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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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Do not judge of the ways of God by outward appearance, but judge according to the true value and worth of things: Shall we in other things judge according to the value and worth of things, and only in the ways of God, judge by outward appearance, and not according to the worth? Do but come near to the ways of godliness, you will find them other things then you imagine: As Peter Martyr had a speech in his Sermon, that was the means of that Marquess Galeacius his conversion: If so be, says he, one should see a company of Musicians, that are ⟨p. 163⟩playing and dancing according to their art, a great way off, he would think that they were mad men; but if he come nearer and nearer, and hear the melodious sound of the music, and observe their art in all they do, he will be of another mind: And so men of the world look upon Gods people afar off, and think them mad men to take such courses; but if they would come nearer, and observe their ways, and see the equity and reason, and observe the excellency and beauty that is in them, they would be of other minds.
Do not judge of the ways of God by outward appearance, but judge according to the true value and worth of things: Shall we in other things judge according to the value and worth of things, and onely in the ways of God, judge by outward appearance, and not according to the worth? Do but come near to the ways of godliness, you will finde them other things then you imagine: As Peter Martyr had a speech in his Sermon, that was the means of that Marquess Galeacius his conversion: If so be, says he, one should see a company of Musitians, that are ⟨p. 163⟩playing and dancing according to their art, a great way off, he would think that they were mad men; but if he come nearer and nearer, and hear the melodious sound of the musique, and observe their art in all they do, he will be of another minde: And so men of the world look upon Gods people afar off, and think them mad men to take such courses; but if they would come nearer, and observe their ways, and see the equity and reason, and observe the excellency and beauty that is in them, they would be of other mindes.