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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.
Secondly, because they are chained together; as the Papists will say, there is no such union between 1others, as between us; What is the ground? They are held together by an Antichristian chain: Popery does subject the consciences of men to them: they must believe the infallibility of the Pope, and they have no liberty to search things by the Word; and they will not suffer them to be reasoning about the points of Religion; they are in darkness, and when they be chained up in darkness, no wonder though they be close together. This is just as if there should be a couple of men chained to a block, and as they are chained together, they see other men go at a distance from one another; and they that are chained should cry out, See what a distance is between you, we keep close together all the day long; Were this a plea for them? What is that that keeps them together? It is but their chain, and if their chain were off, they would be at as great a distance as others; and therefore though there be great evil in the dissentions of Gods people, yet it is not for such as these are to complain of the evil.
Secondly, because they are chained together; as the Papists will say, there is no such union between 1others, as between us; What is the ground? They are held together by an Antichristian chain: Popery does subject the consciences of men to them: they must believe the infalibility of the Pope, and they have no liberty to search things by the Word; and they will not suffer them to be reasoning about the points of Religion; they are in darkness, and when they be chained up in darkness, no wonder though they be close together. This is just as if there should be a couple of men chained to a block, and as they are chained together, they see other men go at a distance from one another; and they that are chained should cry out, See what a distance is between you, we keep close together all the day long; Were this a plea for them? What is that that keeps them together? It is but their chain, and if their chain were off, they would be at as great a distance as others; and therefore though there be great evil in the dissentions of Gods people, yet it is not for such as these are to complain of the evil.
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