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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.
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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Thirdly, in the work of humiliation there is much delight, because the soul hath much delight in looking 1back to that sorrow it hath had; and if godliness 2makes mourning to be delightful, what does it make rejoicing to be?
Thirdly, in the work of humiliation there is much delight, because the soul hath much delight in looking 1back to that sorrow it hath had; and if godliness 2makes mourning to be delightful, what does it make rejoycing to be?
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- 2Si adeò dulce flere prote, quàm dulce erit gaudere de te? Ber.
But if it be said in the third place, But there are many hard things that Gods people do meet withal in the ways of godliness, and the ways of godliness