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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.
CHAP. XXIV. We should satisfy our selves in communion with the Saints, and improve it to the utmost advantage we can.
CHAP. XXIV. We should satisfie our selves in communion with the Saints, and improve it to the utmost advantage we can.
Again, another branch of the exhortation is this; if there be so much good to be had in 1this communion, labour to satisfy your selves in it, so as to take heed of breaking from it; the forsaking the assemblies of the Saints, is made by the Apostle an argument of Apostasy, Heb. 10. 25. Not forsaking the assembling our selves together, as the manner of some is. Do not think to go and make up your comfort with going, and joining with the world. Certainly, when men that are members of a Church shall for form come and join with Gods people, but their consciences tell them, when they are in the world, their hearts are more content and satisfied; this is an argument of a carnal heart, that hath dallied with God. It is a dishonour to godly men; as men that are raised to high privileges, count it a dishonour to company with those that are mean. Those who were free of the City of Rome, were not to be free of any other place. It is enough that we are Citizens of the new Jerusalem, let us satisfy our selves in this.
AGain, another branch of the exhortation is this; if there be so much good to be had in 1this communion, labor to satisfie your selves in it, so as to take heed of breaking from it; the forsaking the assemblies of the Saints, is made by the Apostle an argument of Apostacy, Heb. 10. 25. Not forsaking the assembling our selves together, as the maner of some is. Do not think to go and make up your comfort with going, and joyning with the world. Certainly, when men that are members of a Church shall for form come and joyn with Gods people, but their consciences tell them, when they are in the world, their hearts are more content and satisfied; this is an argument of a carnal heart, that hath dallied with God. It is a dishonor to godly men; as men that are raised to high priviledges, count it a dishonor to company with those that are mean. Those who were free of the City of Rome, were not to be free of any other place. It is enough that we are Citizens of the new Jerusalem, let us satisfie our selves in this.