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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.
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If you had never so much filth upon you for the present, being there is so much honour to come, what need you to care? If a man be going to be crowned, and to be glorified, and those that do not know him, as he goes contemn him, what cares he? He knows that within a few days he shall be honoured by those that do reproach him. As David said to Michal, 2 Samuel 6. 22. when she told him of being vile in the eyes of the handmaids, Of the maid-servants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour: so even of those men of the world, which now you say do so reproach you, even of them hereafter shall you be had in honour: If we believe there are such things to come, that we shall sit with Christ, and judge the Angels, and judge the reproachers, why should we be troubled?
If you had never so much filth upon you for the present, being there is so much honor to come, what need you to care? If a man be going to be crowned, and to be glorified, and those that do not know him, as he goes contemn him, what cares he? He knows that within a few days he shall be honored by those that do reproach him. As David said to Michal, 2 Samuel 6. 22. when she told him of being vile in the eyes of the handmaids, Of the maid-servants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor: so even of those men of the world, which now you say do so reproach you, even of them hereafter shall you be had in honor: If we believe there are such things to come, that we shall sit with Christ, and judge the Angels, and judge the reproachers, why should we be troubled?
There is a famous passage I have met with in Chrysostom, to this purpose; he brings in Christ comforting his Disciples against reproaches, speaking thus unto them: *What, is the wrong grievous unto you, that now they call you seducers and conjurers? it will not be long before they shall openly call you the Saviours and blessings of the whole world; that time that shall declare all things that are now hid, shall rebuke them for their lying words against you, and