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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
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We read of the Christians that lived in the time between the Prophets and Christ, in the latter end of this Chapter, that were as mean as almost the rage of men, and poverty, and disgrace could make them, wandering up and down in Sheep-skins, and Goat-skins, and in the dens and caves of the earth; and yet, says the Text, they were such as the world were not worthy of: Chrysostom carries it thus, Take all the men of the world, they are not worth one of the people of God, though never so mean in regard of outwards: But I rather take it thus, The world was not worthy of such a privilege, to have them live amongst them, they are fitter to be set as Stars in Heaven, and to be continually before the Throne of God.
We read of the Christians that lived in the time between the Prophets and Christ, in the latter end of this Chapter, that were as mean as almost the rage of men, and poverty, and disgrace could make them, wandring up and down in Sheep-skins, and Goat-skins, and in the dens and caves of the earth; and yet, says the Text, they were such as the world were not worthy of: Chrysostom carries it thus, Take all the men of the world, they are not worth one of the people of God, though never so mean in regard of outwards: But I rather take it thus, The world was not worthy of such a priviledge, to have them live amongst them, they are fitter to be set as Stars in Heaven, and to be continually before the Throne of God.
Many times under mean outsides, there are precious things within; in earthen vessels, rich treasures. The Tabernacle of God, covered meanly outwardly, and yet precious within. It is said of Christ himself, that he had no form and comeliness at all outwardly, ⟨p. 201⟩Isa. 53. No beauty to a carnal eye: And yet in Cant. 5. where the Church is put upon the description of Christ, she says, He is altogether lovely; altogether desires, so it is in the Original: See what a different esteem is of Christ in the thoughts of the world, and the thoughts of a gracious heart: And as of Christ, so of Christians, Christ is precious to them that do believe; To you he is precious (says the Apostle) but