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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.
God hath made a separation between the wicked and the godly, and therefore Moses says in Exod. 33. ver. 16. Thou hast separated between us and other people; the word that is translated separated, is, thou hast wonderfully separated between us and other people; so God hath wonderfully separated between us and the world; that the one should be so cursed, that all the good of the world cannot make them blessed; and the other so blessed, as all the evil of the world cannot make them miserable. When Agrippa was so admired, that the people cried, The voice of God, and not of man, God gives an Angel authority to smite him, and he was eaten up with worms: John though he was mean in the world, the Holy Ghost calls him the greatest that was born of a woman.
God hath made a separation between the wicked and the godly, and therefore Moses says in Exod. 33. ver. 16. Thou hast separated between us and other people; the word that is translated separated, is, thou hast wonderfully separated between us and other people; so God hath wonderfully separated between us and the world; that the one should be so cursed, that all the good of the world cannot make them blessed; and the other so blessed, as all the evil of the world cannot make them miserable. When Agrippa was so admired, that the people cryed, The voyce of God, and not of man, God gives an Angel authority to smite him, and he was eaten up with worms: John though he was mean in the world, the Holy Ghost calls him the greatest that was born of a woman.
Secondly, this rebukes those that can see no excellency 1in those that are godly, more then in others: and if they be afflicted, they look upon them, as the prey of the malice of wicked men, and a poor contemptible people, and pass them by, and see nothing in them to be worthy of any respect. As it was said of Herod, when Christ came to him, he thought to have seen miracles wrought by him; and because he appeared as a mean man, Herod slighted him; and so men that judge according to the flesh, if men be great in the world, or have such a one to