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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 32: How we are to bear Reproaches.
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.
Lastly, when we do stir, if we do not clear every 1little minute to the utmost, it will be a means to make us suspected of all, and therefore do not take much notice of reproaches. It is a notable example that we find of one Pericles as he was sitting before others in a meeting, a foul-mouthed fellow railed upon him 2all the day long; at night when it was dark, and the meeting broke up, the fellow followed him and railed at him even to his door, and he took no notice of him what he said, but when he came at home, this is all he said, It is dark, I pray let my man light you home.
Lastly, when we do stir, if we do not clear every 1little minute to the utmost, it will be a means to make us suspected of all, and therefore do not take much notice of reproaches. It is a notable example that we finde of one Pericles as he was sitting before others in a meeting, a foul-mouthed fellow railed upon him 2all the day long; at night when it was dark, and the meeting broke up, the fellow followed him and railed at him even to his door, and he took no notice of him what he said, but when he came at home, this is all he said, It is dark, I pray let my man light you home.
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- 2Plutarch in vita Peric.
But men will take me for guilty if I let it pass quietly.1
- 1Object.