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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, let us not carry our selves revengefully under our reproaches, not to desire the reproachers 1might have an evil name in the same kind: It is ordinary for people that are reproached to do thus, but many though they dare not say so, yet secretly they would be willing that those that do reproach them, might have an evil name. But where have we those 2that do labour to clear the innocency of those that do reproach them? it would be the glory of Christians, to be so far from revenge to those that reproach them, as to clear their innocency, and to speak well of them as occasions serve, as the Apostle says, We ⟨p. 369⟩being defamed, we entreat, and are not glad if they fall into any evil: Many people if any have spoken evil of them, and they fall into evil, how does it please them? Let us suffer never so much, God forbid we should think the evil of our reproach so great, as to be glad to have it wiped away with any sin against God: Such and such have sinned such and such sins, and by those sins my reproach is wiped away, and therefore I am glad: God forbid we should have the wiping away of our reproaches at so dear a rate. We read in Hosea 4. of the great charge that was laid upon the Priests, they eat up the sin of the people, because the Priests had some advantage by the sins that the people committed, for they brought Sacrifices for their sin, and the Priests had part, upon this they set their hearts, upon the sin of the people; this is an abominable thing, to be glad of the sin of another, because of any advantage that comes to us by it. True it is, God shall have a great deal of glory by clearing the innocency of his servants, but we must not desire that God may have his glory this way by the commission of any sin, nor rejoice in such a way of Gods glory.
Fourthly, let us not carry our selves revengefully under our reproaches, not to desire the reproachers 1might have an evil name in the same kinde: It is ordinary for people that are reproached to do thus, but many though they dare not say so, yet secretly they would be willing that those that do reproach them, might have an evil name. But where have we those