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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, it is such as can stand with fear, and the 1work of repentance and humiliation; these do not ⟨p. 192⟩hinder a spiritual pleasantness, though it hinders that which is natural: You know the Scripture that says, Rejoice with trembling; and Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, and greatly delights in his Commandments: That is a spiritual pleasantness, which hath a gracious mixture of seriousness and other graces of Gods Spirit with it.
Secondly, it is such as can stand with fear, and the 1work of repentance and humiliation; these do not ⟨p. 192⟩hinder a spiritual pleasantness, though it hinders that which is natural: You know the Scripture that says, Rejoyce with trembling; and Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, and greatly delights in his Commandments: That is a spiritual pleasantness, which hath a gracious mixture of seriousness and other graces of Gods Spirit with it.
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Thirdly, Again, if it be a gracious pleasantness, it 1is a delight in all the ways of wisdom; many can delight in some ways of wisdom, the stony ground received some truths with joy, but others they cannot close with; but when the pleasantness is spiritual, there is rejoicing in all.
Thirdly, Again, if it be a gracious pleasantness, it 1