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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.
Fourthly, the godliness that is in Christ Jesus, is a 1powerful godliness, that will not yield and give in; such as the Lord requires in Jeremiah, Let them come in to you, do not you go to them: Let men say what they will, let them threaten, rail, flatter, persuade, yet this yields not. Now the world judges this to be pride, stubbornness, not knowing what the power of godliness means: A reed that yields, is not shattered by the wind: So those who will be time-servers, whose consciences will bow any way, those shall suffer no great matter; but if men be unyieldable, especially in things that are counted small, as many of the Christians in the Primitive times, who would not cast one grain of frankincense into the fire to save their lives, these are hated, contemned and persecuted in the World: Antichrist is content to let the ⟨p. 16⟩name and profession of Religion alone, but he persecutes the power of godliness, it is that which witnesseth against him, Revel. 11. 8. He slays the witnesses, but he lets their carcasses lie openly; he cares not for the name and profession, so be it the witnessing power be slain.
Fourthly, the godliness that is in Christ Iesus, is a 1powerful godliness, that will not yield and give in; such as the Lord requires in Ieremy, Let them come in to you, do not you go to them: Let men say what they will, let them threaten, rail, flatter, perswade, yet this yields not. Now the world judges this to be pride, stubbornness, not knowing what the power of godliness means: A reed that yields, is not shattered by the wind: So those who will be time-servers, whose consciences will bow any way, those shall suffer no great matter; but if men be unyieldable, especially in things that are counted small, as many of the Christians in the Primitive times, who would not cast one grain of frankincense into the fire to save their lives, these are hated, contemned and persecuted in the World: Antichrist is content to let the ⟨p. 16⟩name and profession of Religion alone, but he persecutes the power of godliness, it is that which witnesseth against him,