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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.
Seventhly, if there be so much good in this way, labour to improve it to the utmost: Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool? This is a great price; if many had seen the days that we have seen, how would they have blessed God? what use would they have made of them? Seeing God therefore hath given you this opportunity, improve it: if you have any advantage in your trading, you will improve it. Take heed of such things as may hinder that good you may have in communion with the Saints: What are they?
Seventhly, if there be so much good in this way, labor to improve it to the utmost: Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool? This is a great price; if many had seen the days that we have seen, how would they have blessed God? what use would they have made of them? Seeing God therefore hath given you this opportunity, improve it: if you have any advantage in your trading, you will improve it. Take heed of such things as may hinder that good you may have in communion with the Saints: What are they?
The first thing that I would forewarn Christians 1of, it is sullenness of spirit, that makes them love solitariness rather then communion; and this is amongst many that have true grace: and certainly it comes sometimes from abundance of pride, for if they come among others, they think they shall discover their weakness, and rather then they will discover their weakness, they will deprive themselves of all that good which they might have. Consider how unfaithfully you deal with God, God hath given you a talent, and you are not to wrap it up in a napkin, but to use it for God. Again, it is a wrong to the Church, for your gifts are not your own, but the Church hath an interest in them, and therefore you are to use them for their good. Again, you do much wrong to the Ordinance of God, when you do prefer the contenting of a pettish humour, before the Ordinance of God. God threatens it as a judgement, Hosea 4. 16. To feed his people as a Lamb in a large place; that is, to scatter them from the ⟨p. 310⟩