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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
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Fifthly, Christ appears most for his people in their ⟨p. 230⟩1afflictions, when they are at the lowest; Isaiah 63. 9. In their affliction he was afflicted, the Angel of his presence was then with them, his love and his pity was towards them, he bare them, and carried them: Psal. 69. 9. The Zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, the reproaches of them that reproached thee, are fallen upon me. You know the place is spoken of Christ, and these words were spoken when the Church was in a very ill case, as appears in the Psalm.
Fifthly, Christ appears most for his people in their ⟨p. 230⟩1afflictions, when they are at the lowest; Isaiah 63. 9. In their affliction he was afflicted, the Angel of his presence was then with them, his love and his pity was towards them, he bare them, and carried them: Psal. 69. 9. The Zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, the reproaches of them that reproached thee, are faln upon me. You know the place is spoken of Christ, and these words were spoken when the Church was in a very ill case, as appears in the Psalm.
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Sixthly, times of affliction are the especial times 1to manifest our true love to the Saints, which are near to us in many bonds. It is an ill part of a wife or friend, to forsake husband or friend when in affliction. Josephus reports of Herodias, wife to Herod the Tetrarch, who when the Emperor had deprived her husband of his Tetrarchy, and banished him, annexing his Tetrarchy to Agrippa his kingdom, understanding that Herodias was Agrippa's sister, the Emperor gave her her husbands substance, supposing that she would not accompany her husband; but she answered the Emperor, There is a cause that hinders me from partaking the benefit of your bounty, the affection I bear to my husband, whom if I should forsake in this his misery, it would very ill beseem me, in that I have been a partner with him in his felicity: the Emperor displeased with her answer, banished her likewise with her husband: a brother, a friend, a wife, is for the time of adversity.