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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.
But men will take me for guilty if I let it pass quietly.1
- 1Object.
Not so, we know many times Christ himself 1took no notice of a great deal of evil that was 2said against him, so that the Rulers wondered, How is it that they lay these things to your charge, and you answer nothing? Again, rather the other will show us guilty; it was a speech of Ambrose concerning those that cannot suffer reproach, while they clear themselves guilty, they approve themselves to be more guilty of that evil which is said against them.
Not so, we know many times Christ himself 1took no notice of a great deal of evil that was 2said against him, so that the Rulers wondred, How is it that they lay these things to your charge, and you answer nothing? Again, rather the other will shew us guilty; it was a speech of Ambrose concerning those that cannot suffer reproach, while they clear themselves guilty, they approve themselves to be more guilty of that evil which is said against them.
- 1Answ.
- 2Convitia si trascare, agnita videntur; spreta exlescunt Tacitus lib 4. Qui cito injuria movetur fecit see dig•ū videri contumelia sū vult ca indignus probari: melior est itaque qui contennit injuriam quā qui dolet. Ambros. de offic. l 1. c. 6.