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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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Yea sometimes, to speak some truths with reproach, to make it to be believed the more. It is said, 1 John 12. 21. that there is no lye of the truth, these men make the truth to be serviceable to a lye, they raise the strength of a lye, even out of the truth. We might be abundant in showing the ways of invention that malice hath, to cast dirt and shame upon those that it hath an evil eye upon.
Yea sometimes, to speak some truths with reproach, to make it to be believed the more. It is said, 1 John 12. 21. that there is no lye of the truth, these men make the truth to be serviceable to a lye, they raise the strength of a lye, even out of the truth. We might be abundant in shewing the ways of invention that malice hath, to cast dirt and shame upon those that it hath an evil eye upon.
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Eighthly, if there be any show of suspicion of evil, to ⟨p. 358⟩1make it a certainty, and so to carry it in the report, as if it were surely so, this is a great wrong; for every man is in possession of his good name, until the contrary 2be made out, and in doubtful things the possessor hath the advantage, but in this way of malice, this his privilege is taken away?