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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, the overcoming of strong passions, this convinces them: When as those you live withal, shall 1know there was a time you were outrageous, and forward at every thing that did displease you, and since God hath wrought on your hearts, you can be meek, and patient, and those passions and temptations cannot overcome you now, that did before. When Christ commanded the winds and seas, and they were still at his word, they wondered and said, Who is this, that the winds and seas obey him? And so, when you have storms and passions arise in you, and you by the word of God can make all quiet, men will wonder, and say, Who is this?
Secondly, the overcoming of strong passions, this convinces them: When as those you live withal, shall 1know there was a time you were outragious, and forward at every thing that did displease you, and since God hath wrought on your hearts, you can be meek, and patient, and those passions and temptations cannot overcome you now, that did before. When Christ commanded the winds and seas, and they were still at his word, they wondred and said, Who is this, that the winds and seas obey him? And so, when you have storms and passions arise in you, and you by the word of God can make all quiet, men will wonder, and say, Who is this?
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Thirdly, if you be able to deny your selves in your wills and ends, this is a thing they cannot do; but 1now the godly, if there come any word of God to show their wills are not right, they do not only change the thing their will is upon, but their will is bowed to Gods word. And as it was with David, when he had Saul at an advantage, and might have had his own will upon Saul, and yet spared him, how did this convince Saul? Who having his Enemy, would have spared him? As if he had said, If I had had thee at an advantage, at my own will, I must have had my ends; And so is there any thing that the men of the world can see you may have your ends in, you should rather deny your selves in them.