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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.
Thirdly, if you would so walk, as to draw others in love of communion with you, then walk so, that 1those that are without may see a constant evenness, and proportion in your ways, that one action may be proportionable to another; let them take us when they will, and where they will, we are always the same: though there be never so much forwardness in some of Gods ways, if there be not forwardness in others, there can be no conviction, and there is no beauty: As in nature, so in grace; The beauty of nature is proportion; the beauty of nature is not in the greatness of one member, or in colour, but in the proportion: So the beauty of a Christians conversation, lies in the proportion of a Christians conversation; that there may be suitableness between one thing and another, that the men of the world may not see us halt: Many are hot in some one thing, and remiss in others: I condemn not forwardness in any way of God, but where a man is forward in one thing, and remiss in another, there is a disproportion in his ways, he goes long and short; as where one leg is shorter then another, there must needs be halting; this is a dishonour to Religion, this takes away ⟨p. 296⟩the beauty of Religion, and such as these are, will never convince any of the excellency that is in communion with the Saints.
Thirdly, if you would so walk, as to draw others in love of communion with you, then walk so, that 1those that are without may see a constant evenness, and proportion in your ways, that one action may be proportionable to another; let them take us when they will, and where they will, we are always the same: though there be never so much forwardness in some of Gods ways, if there be not forwardness in others, there can be no conviction, and there is no beauty: As in nature, so in grace; The beauty of nature is proportion; the beauty of nature is not in the greatness of one member, or in colour, but in the proportion: So the beauty of a Christians conversation, lies in the proportion of a Christians conversation; that there may be suitableness between one thing and another, that the men of the world may not see us halt: Many are hot in some one thing, and remiss in others: I condemn not forwardness in any way of God, but where a man is forward in one thing, and remiss in another, there is a disproportion in his ways, he goes long and short; as where one leg is shorter then another, there must needs be halting; this is a dishonor to Religion, this takes away