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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, not to bear them desperately, not to 1care what become of your Names, as many desperate wretches will do. Let men speak the worst of me, I care not, I must appeal to God: Though it is true, Innocency is a good bulwark, yet we are not only to care to approve our selves to God, but we are to care to approve our selves to men; and not only to have a good esteem in Heaven, but to have a good esteem in the world, To provide things honest before all men, especially amongst the people of God, ⟨p. 367⟩and the Churches of God; for to have an evil name, is a great judgement of God, Isa. 65. 15. Ye shall leave your name for a curse. For people to say, they care not what men say of them, it is a great evil, for by this it appears they are not affected with shame; and those that are not affected with shame before others, they are deprived of a special bridle that should keep them from evil, and a special means to further repentance. And besides, it is an argument there is no worth, no good in thee who art so careless; those who have any true worth, will be careful to preserve it, but others are desperate: As a man that hath a good garden, full of good flowers and herbs, will be careful to pull up every weed, but if the place be a dunghill, or over-grown, he neglects it: Wherefore let us labour to behave our selves Christianly, not carelessly, desperately under reproach.
Secondly, not to bear them desperately, not to 1care what become of your Names, as many desperate wretches will do. Let men speak the worst of me, I care not, I must appeal to God: Though it is true, Innocency is a good bulwark, yet we are not onely to care to approve our selves to God, but we are to care to approve our selves to men; and not onely to have a good esteem in Heaven, but to have a good esteem in the world, To provide things honest before all men, especially amongst the people of God, ⟨p. 367⟩and the Churches of God; for to have an evil name, is a great judgement of God,