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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 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.
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 shew 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.
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Brethren, Gods people are to strive, and contend with the world above all people, and that for God; now then, that we may manifest unto the world, that when we do contend with them, that it is merely-for ⟨p. 301⟩God, when it comes to our selves, and our own causes, we should be the most yieldable people in the world. There is a time when we must contend with the world, our consciences put us upon it, and the cause of God puts us upon it, and then they say we are stubborn proud spirits; now to take off this reproach, and to convince them, it is not self-will; therefore when it is only your own cause, yield to the utmost you can, and this will convince them, when you do not yield, that it is not for self, but for God, and conscience.