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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, own them, and be not ashamed of them, before 1your bravest kindred, for they are precious to 2God and Christ, and if you be ashamed of them, you are ashamed of Christ himself, and it is just Christ should be ashamed of you another day: Are they the glory of God, the treasure of God, and the portion of God, and the peculiar ones of God, and shall you be ashamed of them? O no, but those whom God honours, let us honour; What rule can we have better for our honouring of men, then that honour that our God puts upon them? It is given as a special reason, why the King of Babylon sent Ambassadors, and a present to Hezekiah, after he had been sick, to testify his respect to him, and to honour him, because he had heard, how that miracle of the Suns going back was for him, as a sign of his recovery; The Sun was the God whom the Babylonians worshipped; now because their God had honoured Hezekiah so much, the King of Babylon would honour him likewise. Abulensis in 2 Kings 20. God hath wrought great things for his Saints, whereby he hath put much honour upon them, he hath owned them before ⟨p. 220⟩all the world, let us own them with honourable respect of them.
First, own them, and be not ashamed of them, before 1your bravest kindred, for they are precious to 2God and Christ, and if you be ashamed of them, you are ashamed of Christ himself, and it is just Christ should be ashamed of you another day: Are they the glory of God, the treasure of God, and the portion of God, and the peculiar ones of God, and shall you be ashamed of them? O no, but those whom God honors, let us honor; What rule can we have better for our honoring of men, then that honor that our God puts upon them? It is given as a special reason, why the King of Babylon sent Ambassadors, and a present to Hezekiah, after he had been sick, to testifie his respect to him, and to honor him, because he had heard, how that miracle of the Suns going back was for him, as a sign of his recovery; The Sun was the God whom the Babylonians worshipped; now because their God had honored Hezekiah so much, the King of Babylon would honor him likewise. Abulensis in