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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.
Fourthly, we show the baseness of our spirits, to be 1so soon put out of frame. Seneca speaking of the complaint 2of those that are under reproach, They are, says he, the complaint of squeamish spirits.
Fourthly, we shew the baseness of our spirits, to be 1so soon put out of frame. Seneca speaking of the complaint 2of those that are under reproach, They are, says he, the complaint of squeamish spirits.
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- 2Qui vocem nisi querelas animi nauseantis. Sen.
Fifthly, it is a means to make others to think we are guilty: There is no means whereby I would think 1one were guilty of what he is reproached, as that, namely, a mighty inordinate passion at hearing of those things. If you hear a couple disputing, commonly he that wants arguments for his case, will fall into giving ill language, and passion, and therefore those men that have power over their passion in reasoning, do what they can to bring those they reason withal into passion, for then they have them at their will: And so those that are brought into passion, when they are reproached, gives a great suspicion of the weakness of their cause, and are thought to be guilty.
Fifthly, it is a means to make others to think we are guilty: There is no means whereby I would think 1