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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 3 › Chapter 29: The Review of Moses Choice.
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WE have finished the Choice of Moses, the argument upon which Moses went in his Choice, and now we are come to this 26. verse, where we have the Review of Moses choice, looking back to see what he had chosen, to the consequent of it. He sees that while he joins himself with the people of God, and suffers affliction, he is like to meet with nothing but reproach and scorn for his labour; this he sees, & yet he repents not: his judgement still is not only for his choice, but he does esteem of it ⟨p. 346⟩highly, as accounting that reproach of Christ that he was to suffer, great riches; and the argument that here he hath, is the greatness of the recompense of the reward, He had an eye unto the recompense of the reward.
WE have finished the Choice of Moses, the argument upon which Moses went in his Choice, and now we are come to this 26. verse, where we have the Review of Moses choice, looking back to see what he had chosen, to the consequent of it. He sees that while he joyns himself with the people of God, and suffers affliction, he is like to meet with nothing but reproach and scorn for his labor; this he sees, & yet he repents not: his judgement still is not onely for his choice, but he does esteem of it ⟨p. 346⟩highly, as accounting that reproach of Christ that he was to suffer, great riches; and the argument that here he hath, is the greatness of the recompence of the reward, He had an eye unto the recompence of the reward.
[Esteeming the reproach of Christ:] Reproach is taken either materially, or formally; materially, so it may be taken for the affliction that he did endure with Gods people, that outward mean wretched condition that he was like to suffer with the people of God, this was the matter of the reproach. Or otherwise formally, the scorn, contempt, reviling, railing, and all the evil that should be spoken of him when he had left the Court, and joined himself with Gods people; and this formal kind of reproach is that which is especially meant.