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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
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.
First, because they judge as God judges; it is of 1the Spirit of God that they have received, and therefore they must needs judge of things as God judgeth. A child esteems of things usually as his father doth; if there be any of you manifest a slight esteem of any among whom you live, before your children, your children will have the like esteem of them; if you manifest a high esteem of any, your children will do the like: Hence it is, if those that are profane, do despise and scorn at Gods people before their children, their children will quickly learn to despise them: Now because Gods people have Gods Spirit, and God is their Father, they judge as their Father does. Righteous men and Kings, in Scripture phrase, are made all one; those who are Righteous, God looks upon as Kings, and such as are Kings, are not respected of God, if they be not Righteous: Compare those two Scriptures, Mat. 13. 17. and Luke 10. 24. in the one it is thus, Many Prophets and Righteous ⟨p. 202⟩men, have desired to see those things which ye see: But in the other it is, Many Prophets and Kings, have desired to see those things which ye see.
First, because they judge as God judges; it is of 1the Spirit of God that they have received, and therefore they must needs judge of things as God judgeth. A childe esteems of things usually as his father doth; if there be any of you manifest a slight esteem of any among whom you live, before your children, your children will have the like esteem of them; if you manifest a high esteem of any, your children will do the like: Hence it is, if those that are prophane, do despise and scorn at Gods people before their children, their children will quickly learn to despise them: Now because Gods people have Gods Spirit, and God is their Father, they judge as their Father does. Righteous men and Kings, in Scripture phrase, are made all one; those who are Righteous, God looks upon as Kings, and such as are Kings, are not respected of God, if they be not Righteous: Compare those two Scriptures,