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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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9. Again, consider the goodness of God in delivering of you from everlasting reproach. In Dan. 12. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. We might have been amongst the company of those that shall have all their wickedness opened at the last day of Judgement before God himself, and might have had the Lord himself mocking at us.
10. And yet further, consider that the greatest evil of reproach it is from him that receives it, it is according ⟨p. 392⟩as we take it. It is a speech of Chrysostom; As it is with meat, so it is with reproaches, it is not the goodness and sweetness of the meat in its self that makes it to be good and sweet to me, but according as my stomach and body is affected: And so in all reproaches, it is not as it comes from him that casts it, that makes it evil, but it is as he that receives it makes it: cast dirt upon dirt, and it will stick, cast dirt upon 1on a piece of polished brass or iron, and it will fall off; the greatest part of the evil of reproaches, comes from the affection of the receiver; then it is in our power to make reproaches to be as nothing, if we can but take pains to get our hearts so affected, as that the reproach may not stick: It is not in the power of any man in the world to stain us, if we by some evil do not make the stain to stick upon our selves.
10. And yet futther, consider that the greatest evil of reproach it is from him that receives it, it is according ⟨p. 392⟩as we take it. It is a speech of Chrysostom; As it is with meat, so it is with reproaches, it is not the goodness and sweetness of the meat in its self that makes it to be good and sweet to me, but according as my stomack and body is affected: And so in all reproaches, it is not as it comes from him that casts it, that makes it evil, but it is as he that receives it makes it: cast dirt upon dirt, and it will stick, cast dirt upon