A30592:545
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.
Those words, Hosea 11. 12. Judah ruleth with God, the old Latin hath it, Testis descendit cum Deo, He descends a witness with God, and so the words will bear, if the pricks be altered, which may be, being according to the opinion of many put in, in latter times; Ribera maintains this reading, and hath two good notes upon it:
Those words, Hosea 11. 12. Judah ruleth with God, the old Latine hath it, Testis descendit cum Deo, He descends a witness with God, and so the words will bear, if the pricks be altered, which may be, being according to the opinion of many put in, in latter times; Ribera maintains this reading, and hath two good notes upon it:
First, Others leave the true worship of God, but Judah continues, and so witnesses to his truth.
First, Others leave the true worship of God, but Iudah continues, and so witnesses to his truth.
Secondly, He descends, he is content to be in a lower condition; though he be fewer, and not so flourishing as Israel, yet if he may be Gods witness, he is content. Thus should we be willing to descend to witness for the truth, to leave the flourishing people of the world, and to join with the lowest and meanest.
Secondly, He descends, he is content to be in a lower condition; though he be fewer, and not so flourishing as Israel, yet if he may be Gods witness, he is content. Thus should we be willing to descend to witness for the truth, to leave the flourishing people of the world, and to joyn with the lowest and meanest.