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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.
Fifthly, be joyful in affliction, rejoicing in God 1and Christ, then when all outward delight fails in very convincing: If people speak so much of faith, and living by faith on the promises, and yet if they be crossed in any thing in the world, their hearts are as low and sinking as the hearts of any; when men of the world see this, they say, Where is all their faith? But if they see when affliction comes, even such as would make their hearts sink, and the people of God carry them out cheerfully, they will say, Surely there is some real principle in them that we cannot see. As Justin Martyr, when he saw the Christians suffer such great things so cheerfully, says he, Surely these men have more then the men of the world, they have other principles, and so he enquired what manner of people they were, and so came to embrace the truth.
Fifthly, be joyful in affliction, rejoycing in God 1and Christ, then when all outward delight fails in very convincing: If people speak so much of faith, and living by faith on the promises, and yet if they be crost in any thing in the world, their hearts are as low and sinking as the hearts of any; when men of the world see this, they say, Where is all their faith? But if they see when affliction comes, even such as would make their hearts sink, and the people of God carry them out chearfully, they will say, Surely there is some real principle in them that we cannot see. As Justin Martyr, when he saw the Christians suffer such great things so chearfully, says he, Surely these men have more then the men of the world, they have other principles, and so he enquired what maner of people they were, and so came to embrace the truth.
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It is not so much to be merry and joyful over their cups; the people of God cannot be merry and joyful in sensual delights, but put them into afflictions and hardships, and they can be cheerful more then you, they are not so dumpish and sad as the men of the world think they are. Christ said, I have meat to eat of which you know not of: The light of the candle is fed with stinking tallow, but the light of the Sun hath influence from Heaven to feed it, and so is not soon blown out: And so the joys of Gods people have other matter to feed them, and are not so soon puffed out as the joys of the world.