Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

First, because the men of the world look upon the servants of God, as having very poor low spirits; now those are men that are liable to contempt and ⟨p. 355⟩reproach. Gods people are not for the braveries of the world, and the glory of the world; and when they see their hearts are taken off from that which they count the bravery of the world, they contemn them.

Secondly, they look upon their ways as irrational: ¹There is no reason why men should be so afraid of the least sin, they are stricter then they need, and do more then they need: so that the more earnest Gods people are upon their way, the more wicked men will scorn them, because they see them earnest upon that which they see no reason for.

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Again, they think the ways of Religion are but imaginary things, and notions, and there is no certainty ¹in them, and think it strange men should suffer for things that are to come they know not when, and are they know not what: and therefore one gives that reason, why Cyprian was called Coprian, because he gathered such fables and tales, (meaning the Gospel) as they termed them, which they saw no reason for.

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