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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 30: The condition of Gods people is a reproached condition.
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Fourthly, to speak things as from others, and not 1from themselves, and in the speaking of them to say, I believe such things are not true, and yet they spread the report.
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Another way is to speak evil, and yet so, as to manifest 1a great deal of grief and sorrow for such reports, and secretly desire that they may spread, and take where they come.
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Sixthly, when they want apparent matter for reproach, 1they will pretend some love to get matter for reproach: so you may read in Ezra 4. 1, 2. when the adversaries of Judah could not reproach them apparently, they pretended love, and this and that, they sought the same God they did, and would sacrifice to him, and therefore would build with them. So Sanballat and Tobiah desired to meet lovingly with 2Nehemiah to take counsel together, but in this they intended his reproach.
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