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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.
If the people of God might have a Herald to give Arms to them, as some other Professions and Societies have, the best and most suitable, would be such as Mr. Hooper that holy Martyr had, when he was made Bishop of Worcester, A Lamb in a flaming bush, with rays of the Sun from Heaven shining on it: a Lamb for meekness, in a bush burning, amongst wicked men, who are as brambles and thorns, burning with malice, and yet the sweet influence and comfortable light of heaven let out upon it.
If the people of God might have a Herald to give Arms to them, as some other Professions and Societies have, the best and most sutable, would be such as Mr. Hooper that holy Martyr had, when he was made Bishop of Worcester, A Lamb in a flaming bush, with rayes of the Sun from Heaven shining on it: a Lamb for meekness, in a bush burning, amongst wicked men, who are as brambles and thorns, burning with malice, and yet the sweet influence and comfortable light of heaven let out upon it.
When Ignatius came to the wild beasts, to be devoured of them, and his bones crushed between their teeth; Now (says he) I begin to be a Christian: Blessed Mr. Bradford writing to the Town of Walden, to encourage them to suffer, saith, that that Christian ⟨p. 11⟩hath not learned his A. B. C. in Christianity, who hath not learned the lesson of the Cross. A. Christian is a Cross-bearer, says Luther. As God made the evening and the morning to be the first day, and so 1the second, &c. So the day of Gods people, God hath made to be the evening of troubles here, and the everlasting morning of glory and happiness hereafter. It is an expression of Mr. Calvin, The godly (says he) have their dark shadow of troubles before them, and their brightness of glory behind to come hereafter, but the men of the world have their brightness before them.
When Ignatius came to the wilde beasts, to be devoured of them, and his bones crushed between their teeth; Now (says he) I begin to be a Christian: Blessed Mr. Bradford writing to the Town of Walden, to encourage them to suffer, saith, that that Christian