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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 15: The true pleasantness of all the ways of godliness.
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That the yoke of Christ was an easy yoke, and the ways of godliness had ease in them, we have spoken largely: As they have ease, so they have pleasantness, all the ways of godliness are pleasant, to that at this time. Ordinarily we cannot expect any dependence in these Proverbs, but yet in this you have, there is a dependence of these words upon the 13. ver. and so from thence there is a connection of the several Proverbs.
That the yoke of Christ was an easie yoke, and the ways of godliness had ease in them, we have spoken largely: As they have ease, so they have pleasantness, all the ways of godliness are pleasant, to that at this time. Ordinarily we cannot expect any dependence in these Proverbs, but yet in this you have, there is a dependence of these words upon the 13. ver. and so from thence there is a connextion of the several Proverbs.
In the 13. ver. you have the commendation of wisdom, and the blessed estate of that man set out, that finds wisdom: Wisdom is commended by many arguments, and amongst the rest, not to spend time about the other, this is one, because all her ways are ways of pleasantness; and therefore happy is the man that finds it out. All her ways, that is, the ways of wisdom, the ways of godliness, they are ways of pleasantness, not only shall be, but they are so, ⟨p. 170⟩they are ways in themselves pleasant, and lead to pleasantness: They are ways not only pleasant, but ways of pleasantness in the abstract. Wherefore the point that is to be the subject of this exercise, is, as you have it plain in the words:
In the 13. ver. you have the commendation of wisdom, and the blessed estate of that man set out, that findes wisdom: Wisdom is commended by many arguments, and amongst the rest, not to spend time about the other, this is one, because all her ways are ways of pleasantness; and therefore happy is the man that findes it out. All her ways, that is, the ways of wisdom, the ways of godliness, they are ways of pleasantness, not onely shall be, but they are so, ⟨p. 170⟩