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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.
Fourthly, this is the especial work of wisdom: if 1God hath let out any beam of wisdom into your ⟨p. 269⟩souls, to show unto you any thing of the excellency of Christ, this will be immediately desired; as in that Parable of the wise Merchant, as soon as he had found the Pearl, he went and sold all to buy the field: the meaning is, when a soul comes to have any knowledge of Christ, that Christ is the only Pearl, then it desires to seek to enjoy him, where he is to be enjoyed; it is in the field, in the Church of God, in communion with it; and the wise Merchant would part with any thing, that he might have the field, that is, have communion with Gods people in his Ordinances, and so come to enjoy the Pearl.
Fourthly, this is the especial work of wisdom: if 1God hath let out any beam of wisdom into your ⟨p. 269⟩souls, to shew unto you any thing of the excellency of Christ, this will be immediately desired; as in that Parable of the wise Merchant, as soon as he had found the Pearl, he went and sold all to buy the field: the meaning is, when a soul comes to have any knowledge of Christ, that Christ is the onely Pearl, then it desires to seek to enjoy him, where he is to be enjoyed; it is in the field, in the Church of God, in communion with it; and the wise Merchant would part with any thing, that he might have the field, that is, have communion with Gods people in his Ordinances, and so come to enjoy the Pearl.
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Yea fifthly, the reason why God puts any light or truth into the soul, is to put forth the soul to this, to 1