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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, The men of the world have skill in 1peaceable dispositions, labour to be of a peaceable disposition: Blessed are the peacemakers; let them not see rigidness in your ways. The Jews observe upon Exod. 25. 3. that there was no iron amongst the stuff of the Tabernacle: What do rigid iron dispositions in Gods Tabernacle, in Gods Church?
Thirdly, The men of the world have skill in 1peaceable dispositions, labor to be of a peaceable disposition: Blessed are the peacemakers; let them not see rigidness in your ways. The Jews observe upon Exod. 25. 3. that there was no iron amongst the stuff of the Tabernacle: What do rigid iron dispositions in Gods Tabernacle, in Gods Church?
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Fourthly, they have skill in affability, and courteousness; Religion does not teach men to be sour, 1but as courteousness and affability is a moral virtue, so it is to be carried in a higher way in Christians then in others. Many men who have no grace, seem to carry themselves like Christians; what a shame then is it for Christians, who have grace, not to carry themselves like men?
Fourthly, they have skill in affability, and courteousness; Religion does not teach men to be sowre, 1but as courteousness and affability is a moral vertue, so it is to be carried in a higher way in Christians then in others. Many men who have no grace, seem to carry themselves like Christians; what a shame then is it for Christians, who have grace, not to carry themselves like men?