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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, if you would walk so as to draw others in love to communion with you, walk in singleness and uprightness of heart. Acts 2. 46, 47. They did eat their bread with gladness, and singleness of heart, praising God: mark what follows; having favour with all the people, and God added to the Church: Singleness of heart makes Church-communion lovely.
Secondly, if you would walk so as to draw others in love to communion with you, walk in singleness and uprightness of heart. Acts 2. 46, 47. They did eat their bread with gladness, and singleness of heart, praising God: mark what follows; having favor with all the people, and God added to the Church: Singleness of heart makes Church-communion lovely.
But what is that uprightness, and singleness of heart 1that we are to walk withal?
- 1Quest.
By that I mean this; namely, to be sure that there 1be an answerableness in our conversation unto all those principles of godliness that we profess: for take the most strict principles of Religion, and the men of the world cannot speak against them, and when it comes to, this is all they have to say, Ah! if it were in truth, and in sincerity, it were something, but they are hypocrites: they acknowledge the principles are right, but they think the principles are so strict, that it is impossible to walk up to them: Ah! say they, give me one that does walk up to his principles, and we will say something to you.