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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.
There may be a great many of temporal pleasures 1that God gives forth to Christians in its place; but 2you must rise higher then that, and put another manner of lustre upon the ways of Religion then natural pleasantness.
There may be a great many of temporal pleasures 1that God gives forth to Christians in its place; but 2you must rise higher then that, and put another maner of lustre upon the ways of Religion then natural pleasantness.
- 1Answ.
- 2Difference between natural pleasantness, and spiritual pleasantness.
First, if it be a spiritual pleasantness, it will be serious, such as becomes Christian gravity; Yea, not only seriousness and gravity is to be mixed with 1pleasantness; but if it be spiritual pleasantness,
First, if it be a spiritual pleasantness, it will be serious, such as becomes Christian gravity; Yea, not onely seriousness and gravity is to be mixed with 1pleasantness; but if it be spiritual pleasantness,
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