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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.
Yet further, although in Jericho they destroyed men, women, and cattle, and so it was more accursed then Ai, for there the cattle were saved; yet in Jericho the gold, silver, brass, iron, were consecrated unto God, Josh. 7. 19. but so it must not be in Amalek, for that must be more accursed then Jericho. And God was so strongly set upon revenge of this people, that because Saul spared Agag, and the fat of the cattle, though in pity, though under pretence of Sacrifice, the Lord therefore rejected him, and accounted his sin as rebellion and witchcraft, so as he would not have Samuel so much as mourn for him, 1 Sam. 16. 1. And when Agag was brought before Samuel, because he was the King of the Amalekites, Samuel, though he were a loving sweet natured man, yet he took a sword, and himself hewed him in pieces before the Lord, being filled with Gods indignation against Amalek, 1 Sam. 15. 33. And Psalm 83. 7. Ammon and Amalek is joined together; God pronounces of the Ammonite, that to the tenth generation none of them should enter into the Congregation of the Lord for ever; Why? Because they met not Gods people in the way, with bread and water, when they came up out of Egypt, Deut. 23. 4. but hired Balaam to curse them.
Yet further, although in Jericho they destroyed men, women, and cattel, and so it was more accursed then Ai, for there the cattel were saved; yet in Jericho the gold, silver, brass, iron, were consecrated unto God, Iosh. 7. 19. but so it must not be in Amalek, for that must be more accursed then Iericho. And God was so strongly set upon revenge of this people, that because Saul spared Agag, and the fat of the cattel, though in pity, though under pretence of Sacrifice, the Lord therefore rejected him, and accounted his sin as rebellion and witchcraft, so as he would not have Samuel so much as mourn for him, 1 Sam. 16. 1. And when Agag was brought before Samuel, because he was the King of the Amalekites, Samuel, though he were a loving sweet natured man, yet he took a sword, and himself hewed him in pieces before the Lord, being filled with Gods indignation against Amalek,