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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To that I answer, First, there is more sweetness in 1that which thou callest bitterness, then in all the delightfulness of the world besides: those waters Christ does turn into wine. And to convince you that these are not bitter waters, but that the tears of repentance and humiliation, are sweet refreshing waters of life; consider from what fountain they come.
- 1Answ.
First, the work of humiliation if it be right, the principle of it is the melting work of the Gospel in the 1soul, the sweetness of the goodness, and mercy of God in Jesus Christ melting the heart, and causing it to dissolve, and fall down under the hand of God; certainly that which comes from such a sweet principle, cannot have much bitterness in it.
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Secondly, the soul in the work of humiliation, melting before the Lord, eases it self in that melting 1of abundance of sin; and much sweetness there must needs be in those tears that ease the soul of, and deliver the soul from much sin.
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