A30592:511
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.
3. Again, the more they are contemned in the world, and they suffer in the world, the more do you 1respect them, and own them; So long as Gods people suffer nothing, but have outward prosperity as well as others, some will make of them; but if they see them in contempt, then they leave them, and look at them afar off: as it is with a mans Ministry, when a mans Ministry is approved of by some that are rich, and the assembly be filled with such, they count such a Ministry a credit to their Church; but if it be spiritual, so as it may be but few of them understand it, and so discountenanced by such as those are, then his Ministry is not regarded: and as in the esteem of the Ministry, so in the esteem of the saints; when they are esteemed in the world, they will esteem of them, but when the esteem of the world is taken away, their esteem is taken away.
3. Again, the more they are contemned in the world, and they suffer in the world, the more do you 1respect them, and own them; So long as Gods people suffer nothing, but have outward prosperity as well as others, some will make of them; but if they see them in contempt, then they leave them, and look at them afar off: as it is with a mans Ministery, when a mans Ministery is approved of by some that are rich, and the assembly be filled with such, they count such a Ministery a credit to their Church; but if it be spiritual, so as it may be but few of them understand it, and so discountenanced by such as those are, then his Ministery is not regarded: and as in the esteem of the Ministery, so in the esteem of the saints; when they are esteemed in the world, they will esteem of them, but when the esteem of the world is taken away, their esteem is taken away.
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As it is with the Deer that is hunted, when the Huntsman goes into the Park, he stirs up all, and all run together, but if one be shot, and they see the blood run down, they will all push him out of their company: so while Gods people go on, and are in credit, and esteem with the world, others that are slight professors of Religion will esteem them, and