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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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Secondly, I answer, that godliness abridges us of 1no lawful pleasure; if it abridges of any, it is delightfulness to want those delights that godliness abridges us of: What, hast thou delight in that which is sinful? if it be not sinful, Religion does not abridge thee of it, only such delights in which thou dishonourest God, and provokest him against thee.
Secondly, I answer, that godliness abridges us of 1no lawful pleasure; if it abridges of any, it is delightfulness to want those delights that godliness abridges us of: What, hast thou delight in that which is sinful? if it be not sinful, Religion does not abridge thee of it, onely such delights in which thou dishonorest God, and provokest him against thee.
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