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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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It is reported of one Marinus a Soldier, when it fell to him to be preferred in some place, he was like to lose it because he was a Christian, and he began to stagger, and to have thoughts rather to leave off Religion, then to lose his place: Then came one Theodistus, and brings him into the Temple, and laid by him the Sword and the Testament, the Gospel, and bade him take his choice: Here is the Sword, which is an emblem of thy place, and here is the Gospel, choose the one, you must have but one: Then his heart gave in, and so left the Sword, and chose the Gospel. The wisdom of God this day hath stood, and still stands before you, pleading with you, crying to you to come in and embrace her, to make a happy choice for thy soul; folly likewise hath her pleadings, and persuasions to draw thee to the lusts of the flesh, both make their offers unto thee; as they say of Hercules when he was young, he saw virtue and vice in the likeness of two Virgins wooing him, vice like a painted Harlot, and virtue like a sober chaste Virgin, both presenting themselves with wooing offers unto him.
It is reported of one Marinus a Soldier, when it fell to him to be preferred in some place, he was like to lose it because he was a Christian, and he began to stagger, and to have thoughts rather to leave off Religion, then to lose his place: Then came one Theodistus, and brings him into the Temple, and laid by him the Sword and the Testament, the Gospel, and bade him take his choice: Here is the Sword, which is an emblem of thy place, and here is the Gospel, choose the one, you must have but one: Then his heart gave in, and so left the Sword, and chose the Gospel. The wisdom of God this day hath stood, and still stands before you, pleading with you, crying to you to come in and embrace her, to make a happy choice for thy soul; folly likewise hath her pleadings, and perswasions to draw thee to the lusts of the flesh, both make their offers unto thee; as they say of Hercules when he was yong, he saw vertue and vice in the likeness of two Virgins wooing him, vice like a painted Harlot, and vertue like a sober chaste Virgin, both presenting themselves with wooing offers unto him.