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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.
Secondly, they hold out the honour of God in the 1world, in their sufferings, they are Gods witnesses; Isaiah 44. 8. They stand for God; in appearing therefore for them, and their cause, ye appear for God himself: the cause is yours as well as theirs, if God be yours.
Secondly, they hold out the honor of God in the 1world, in their sufferings, they are Gods witnesses; Isaiah 44. 8. They stand for God; in appearing therefore for them, and their cause, ye appear for God himself: the cause is yours as well as theirs, if God be yours.
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Thirdly, they need encouragement, especially in 1the time of their affliction; the best have flesh and blood, and if they be deserted in their cause, much advantage is given to temptation; Woe to him that is alone: If any should fail, if any should miscarry through your deserting, or not coming in and joining with them, it will prove a sore and a fearful evil against you. If any of Gods servants in affliction shall go to God, and make their means to him, and in the grief of their souls tell him, how you have left them, how they are alone in so great a cause, whereas such and such might have afforded much help and encouragement; surely this will witness fearfully against you, and it will go ill with you; Certainly you bring much guilt upon your souls, in deserting the Saints in the time of their affliction: Hence Paul prayed, that God would not lay to the charge of those in Asia that 2