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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
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CHAP. XXXV. Sixteen several Consolations arising to the Saints from this consideration, That their sufferings are Christs sufferings.
CHAP. XXXV. Sixteen several Consolatións arising to the Saints from this consideration, That their sufferings are Christs sufferings.
Secondly, the consideration of this point is of 1admirable use for the consolation of all the people of God, in all their sufferings and reproaches. If reproaches and sufferings be the reproaches of Christ, Christ is engaged in them more then you; there may be many branches of comfort to Gods people from hence, That Christ is so engaged in all their sufferings, as they are accounted Christs own: it is a great matter, when any one suffers any thing, if they know this, that any great man is engaged in their sufferings: if a subject should have a King so engaged in any thing he undertakes, that he can say, Whatsoever I suffer in this, is the suffering of the King, this is a great comfort to him; so here there are several branches of comfort that may be drawn from this, Our sufferings are the sufferings of Christ.
SEcondly, the consideration of this point is of 1admirable use for the consolation of all the people of God, in all their sufferings and reproaches. If reproaches and sufferings be the reproaches of Christ, Christ is engaged in them more then you; there may be many branches of comfort to Gods people from hence, That Christ is so engaged in all their sufferings, as they are accounted Christs own: it is a great matter, when any one suffers any thing, if they know this, that any great man is engaged in their sufferings: if a subject should have a King so engaged in any thing he undertakes, that he can say, Whatsoever I suffer in this, is the suffering of the King, this is a great comfort to him; so here there are several branches of comfort that may be drawn from this, Our sufferings are the sufferings of Christ.