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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
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.
Sixthly, if they be the reproaches of Christ, then 1you are not left to bear the burden of them alone, you have but the lighter end of the staff: if a burden be never so heavy at one end, and a strong man is under that, and the other be light, though a weak man be under that, he does not care: so the weight and burden of reproaches lie upon the shoulders of Christ: and therefore when you think it is hard for ⟨p. 415⟩one reproach thus to follow upon another, and for one evil to follow another, it will break my heart; ah, if you did bear it alone, but Christ bears the weight of our reproaches.
Sixthly, if they be the reproaches of Christ, then 1you are not left to bear the burthen of them alone, you have but the lighter end of the staff: if a burthen be never so heavy at one end, and a strong man is under that, and the other be light, though a weak man be under that, he does not care: so the weight and burthen of reproaches lie upon the shoulders of Christ: and therefore when you think it is hard for ⟨p. 415⟩one reproach thus to follow upon another, and for one evil to follow another, it will break my heart; ah, if you did bear it alone, but Christ bears the weight of our reproaches.
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Seventhly, if they be the reproaches of Christ, then for that part you do bear, although it be but little, 1you may expect his strength in, you are not left to bear that little by your own strength; Christ gives out his own strength, to bear his own reproaches; if the burden be his you bear, you shall have strength from him to bear it.