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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.
Seventhly, If Christ suffers in all our sufferings, 1hence we learn not to rush into sufferings, before we be called to them, nor to withdraw from sufferings, when we are called to them. Christ suffers in all our sufferings, then it is not in our liberty to rush into sufferings when we please, though it should be in the cause of Christ. Indeed if we suffered alone, we might venture, but because Christ is interested in it, we must stay till we know whether Christ be willing to suffer; though our time be come, yet it may be Christ will say, My time is not yet come; because it is in a good cause you think you may suffer in it, but consider, is Christs time come? In Proverbs 10. 10. it is said, He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall. when a man is loth to stand for those truths of God that shall bring him into suffering, he winks: He that winketh with the eye, causeth sorrow, he will bring sorrow to his heart. But others will say, We will not ⟨p. 437⟩wink with the eye, it is the cause of God, and we will stand for it, but a prating fool shall fall. A true man may ride in the rode, and fear no danger, yet he will not willingly ride into dangerous places, and so a man is not to ride into danger. As now if you be partners with another, you cannot give what you will, because it is not your own, but it is your partners too. If a man have a cottage of his own alone in a field, he may set it on fire, but if he set his own house on fire in the town, it may cost him his life, because others are interested in the damage as well as himself. Again, if Christ do call, we must go freely, because they are the sufferings of Christ, It is reported of Peter in Ecclesiastical Story, that he was coming out of Rome for fear of suffering; and as he was coming out of the gates, he met Christ, and he asked Christ wherefore he came; says he, I come to be crucified, then he thought Christ came to be crucified in him, and therefore he went back and resolved to suffer, and so he was crucified. And so though we be shy of suffering, yet if we know Christ calls to it, we must yield, as being willing to suffer in us.
Seventhly, If Christ suffers in all our sufferings, 1