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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.
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⟩fold, that they should go one and one, as a Lamb bleating alone in the wild wilderness: take heed you do not bring it upon your selves.
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 humor, 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