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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.
Theodoret tells a famous story of one Terentius, a Captain in the Emperor Valens his Army, who returning 1from Armenia with a great Victory, the Emperor bade him ask what reward he would; he only asked as a recompense of all his Service, that there might be granted a Church to the Orthodox in Antioch, that they might freely meet in public: this he knew could not but be exceeding displeasing to Valens the Emperor, because he was an Arian, and so it proved, for the Emperor tore his Petition, and bade him ask something else; but Terentius gathered up the torn pieces of the Paper, and said, This I ask as a reward of my Service, and I will ask nothing else. How few will now improve such interest in great ones, such opportunities for the relieving the persecuted Servants of God?
Theodoret tells a famous story of one Terentius, a Captain in the Emperor Valens his Army, who returning 1from Armenia with a great Victory, the Emperor bade him ask what reward he would; he onely asked as a recompence of all his Service, that there might be granted a Church to the Orthodox in Antioch, that they might freely meet in publique: this he knew could not but be exceeding displeasing to Valens the Emperor, because he was an Arrian, and so it proved, for the Emperor tore his Petition, and bade him ask something else; but Terentius gathered up the torn pieces of the Paper, and said, This I ask as a reward of my Service, and I will ask nothing else. How few wil now improve such interest in great ones, such opportunities for the relieving the persecuted Servants of God?
- 1Theod. l. 4. bist. eccl. c. 32.
Fifthly, we must improve all our gifts, parts, abilities for them, in pleading for them: Thus in the 1Primitive times, God stirred up many of great learning, of excellent parts, to plead for the persecuted Christians, who did much service this way: as Justin Martyr, in his Apologies; and Tertullian, and one Aristides an Athenian Philosopher, a man admirably learned and eloquent, because the Emperor then was much delighted in learning, he made use of his eloquence and learning, for Christ and his Saints,