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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.
Again fifthly, here you show your exceeding folly, 1that you do not apprehend a greater evil in the evil of sin, then in the evil of suffering: for if we did apprehend the evil of suffering to be less then the evil of sin, we would never labour to deliver our selves from the evil of suffering by the evil of sin; let a man come and cast dirt in your face, the worst that can be in this is an evil of suffering at first, till you make your selves guilty, but how will you deliver your selves by the evil of sin? what ignorance is this? ⟨p. 371⟩Are you acquainted with the ways of God? Is this the way to clear your selves, by defiling your selves more? That filth that comes out of you, defiles you more then that which is cast upon you from without.
Again fithly, here you shew your exceeding folly, 1that you do not apprehend a greater evil in the evil of sin, then in the evil of suffering: for if we did apprehend the evil of suffering to be less then the evil of sin, we would never labor to deliver our selves from the evil of suffering by the evil of sin; let a man come and cast dirt in your face, the worst that can be in this is an evil of suffering at first, till you make your selves guilty, but how will you deliver your selves by the evil of sin? what ignorance is this? ⟨p. 371⟩Are you acquainted with the ways of God? Is this the way to clear your selves, by defiling your selves more? That filth that comes out of you, defiles you more then that which is cast upon you from without.
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Again further, another evil that comes from this