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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.
The third thing that darkens the excellency of 1communion with Gods people, is dissentions in judgement or affection, this makes it appear to be black in the eyes of the world. Sozomen reports of a Devilish 2policy of Julian, to raise a scandal against the Church: He sent for those Bishops that were banished in Constantius his time, on purpose that he might cause dissension in the Church by them. Take heed you have not a hand in darking this excellent condition, no not in this way. In the body, solutio continui, is more dangerous then the corruption of a humour: Let us labour so far as possibly we can, to make it excellent by peaceableness; this is that which is prophesied of for the Church, Isa. 33. 20. Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation: And mark the blessing that follows upon this quietness; A Tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken; but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers, streams, &c. In Zech. 14. ver. 9. there is a Prophecy, that the Lord shall be King over all the earth; in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one: We now profess one God, but we do as it were call him by several names; but that will be a blessed time, when as there shall be but one Lord, so his name shall be one; there shall be a blessed agreement in the profession of ⟨p. 289⟩his name, oneness of heart is a blessing of the new Covenant.
The third thing that darkens the excellency of 1communion with Gods people, is dissentions in judgement or affection, this makes it appear to be black in the eyes of the world. Sozomen reports of a Devilish 2policy of Julian, to raise a scandal against the Church: He sent for those Bishops that were banished in Constantius his time, on purpose that he might cause dissention in the Church by them. Take heed you have not a hand in darking this excellent condition, no not in this way. In the body, solutio continui, is more dangerous then the corruption of a humor: Let us labor so far as possibly we can, to make it excellent by peaceableness; this is that which is prophesied of for the Church,