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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.
Peter was crucified with his heels upward, because he would not be as Christ was, thinking himself unworthy of that honour: Andrew was crucified by Egeas King of Edessa: James was slain by the sword of Herod, as we find Acts: 12. the beginning: Philip was crucified, and stoned to death at Hieropolis, a City in Phrygia: Bartholomew, after divers persecutions, was beaten down with staves as he was preaching in a City of Armenia, and then crucified, and after his skin flayed off, and beheaded: Thomas was slain with a Dart at Calamina in India: Matthew was run through with a sword, or as some write, slain with a spear: James the son of Alpheus, who was called the just man, was set upon the pinnacle of the Temple, and thrown down, and yet having some life left in him, he was brained with a Fullers club; some Histories ⟨p. 19⟩say, that Paul before his conversion, had a special hand in this: Lebbeus was slain by Agbarus King of Edessa: Simon the Canaanite was crucified in Egypt, or as others say, he and Jude was slain in a tumult of the people: Matthias that came into the number in stead of Judas, was stoned, and then beheaded: Paul was beheaded at Rome, under Nero.
Peter was crucified with his heels upward, because he would not be as Christ was, thinking himself unworthy of that honor: Andrew was crucified by Egeas King of Edessa: Iames was slain by the sword of Herod, as we finde Acts: 12. the beginning: Philip was crucified, and stoned to death at Hieropolis, a City in Phrygia: Bartholomew, after divers persecutions, was beaten down with staves as he was preaching in a City of Armenia, and then crucified, and after his skin flead off, and beheaded: Thomas was slain with a Dart at Calamina in India: Matthew was run through with a sword, or as some write, slain with a spear: Iames the son of Alpheus, who was called the just man, was set upon the pinacle of the Temple, and thrown down, and yet having some life left in him, he was brained with a Fullers club; some Histories ⟨p. 19⟩say, that Paul before his conversion, had a special hand in this: Lebbeus was slain by Agbarus King of Edessa: Simon the Canaanite was crucified in Egypt, or as others say, he and Iude was slain in a tumult of the people: Matthias that came into the number in stead of Iudas, was stoned, and then beheaded: Paul was beheaded at Rome, under Nero.