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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
Moses his Choice. › Part 2 › Chapter 27: Exhortation to seek after eternal things.
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Philip King of Macedon, would have a man come and cry to him every morning, You are mortal; this is that which I should rather choose, that you might daily here a voice, that You are immortal; The better part of you must live eternally: Were it that eternity were presented to us in the reality of it, how mightily would it work to draw our hearts to eternal things? Certainly our thoughts are not upon eternity; the thoughts of eternity are mighty ⟨p. 335⟩prevailing thoughts, they are over-awing thoughts, soul balancing thoughts, that would ballast our hearts; they are infinite pertinent thoughts, that do infinitely concern us. You that have had a company of sleight thoughts, and have set the strength of your spirits in thinking of chaffy things; O this day here is an object presented to you, to help you against sleight thoughts: This one word Eternity, and the thoughts of this word, may be enough for you, to banish vain and chaffy thoughts away for ever; it concerns us to have the strength of our spirits busied about this.
Philip King of Macedon, would have a man come and cry to him every morning, You are mortal; this is that which I should rather choose, that you might daily here a voyce, that You are immortal; The better part of you must live eternally: Were it that eternity were presented to us in the reality of it, how mightily would it work to draw our hearts to eternal things? Certainly our thoughts are not upon eternity; the thoughts of eternity are mighty ⟨p. 335⟩prevailing thoughts, they are over-awing thoughts, soul ballacing thoughts, that would ballast our hearts; they are infinite pertinent thoughts, that do infinitely concern us. You that have had a company of sleight thoughts, and have set the strength of your spirits in thinking of chaffy things; O this day here is an object presented to you, to help you against sleight thoughts: This one word Eternity, and the thoughts of this word, may be enough for you, to banish vain and chaffy thoughts away for ever; it concerns us to have the strength of our spirits busied about this.