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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.
First, the worm that is bred in the natural principles; the things that we set our hearts upon, are made of fading principles.
Secondly, there is the worm of the general curse that is come upon them by mans sin.
Thirdly, there is another worm, and that is the particular curse that we bring upon the creatures, by our own proper sins, as especially when we set our hearts upon any fading transitory things below: all things in the world are subject to vanity by the general curse, but the particular curse makes them more vain: and shall we think to satisfy our selves in the things of the world, that have these three worms, feeding upon them continually, to eat out the strength of them?
Thirdly, there is another worm, and that is the particular curse that we bring upon the creatures, by our own proper sins, as especially when we set our hearts upon any fading transitory things below: all things in the world are subject to vanity by the general curse, but the particular curse makes them more vain: and shall we think to satisfie our selves in the things of the world, that have these three worms, feeding upon them continually, to eat out the strength of them?