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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.
There is a notable story of Theodorus a young man, there being a time of great festivity and jollity in Egypt, and there was a great deal of feasting and music, and delight in his fathers house: The young man withdrew himself from all the company, and got alone, and fell a meditating thus, Here is delight and content to the flesh, I may have what I will desire, but how long will it last? And upon this meditation, thinking with himself▪ this will not hold long, he ⟨p. 310⟩withdrew himself into a room private, and fell down upon the earth, and with many tears cried out thus unto God in prayer; O Lord, (says he) my heart is open unto thee, I indeed know not what to ask, but only this, Lord let me not dye eternally; O Lord, thou knowest I love thee, O let me live eternally to praise thee! And when his mother came to him, and would have had him come to the rest of the company that were bidden, he made an excuse and would not, only upon this meditation, because he saw this would not hold.
There is a notabe story of Theodorus a yong man, there being a time of great festivity and jollity in Egypt, and there was a great deal of feasting and musick, and delight in his fathers house: The yong man withdrew himself from all the company, and got alone, and fell a meditating thus, Here is delight and content to the flesh, I may have what I will desire, but how long will it last? And upon this meditation, thinking with himself▪ this will not hold long, he ⟨p. 310⟩withdrew himself into a room private, and fell down upon the earth, and with many tears cryed out thus unto God in prayer; O Lord, (says he) my heart is open unto thee, I indeed know not what to ask, but onely this, Lord let me not dye eternally; O Lord, thou knowest I love thee, O let me live eternally to praise thee! And when his mother came to him, and would have had him come to the rest of the company that were bidden, he made an excuse and would not, onely upon this meditation, because he saw this would not hold.