Moses his self-denial delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews 11, the 24. verseMoses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse

Now follows the third thing, which is the principle by which Moses did all this: he is willing to part with all the glory of the world, and rather to be in an afflicted estate: and this he is enabled to do by faith; for so says the text, by faith Moses refused, &c. It was not out of any sullen vexing humour, as it is reported of Diocletian and Maximian Herculius, they suddenly gave over their Empires, and cast off their honours, and betook themselves to a private life.¹ Eusebius makes the cause thereof to be a frenzy: And Nicephorus says it was rage and madness, arising from hence, because they saw themselves labour so much in vain, for the rooting out of ⟨p. 149⟩the Christians. Master Brightman in his commentary upon the Revelation, the sixth chapter and the fifteenth verse, says it was the fear and the horror of the Lamb that was struck into their hearts, by the power of Jesus Christ; as the fulfilling of that place, where it is said, the Kings of the earth, and the great men, and the mighty men hid themselves, for the fear of the Lamb. Whatsoever their principle was, Moses his principle here was of another nature, a divine principle of faith, from whence the point is, Faith is the grace that enables to deny the glory and delights of the world, and to endure afflictions in the cause of God. Every grace works to take off the heart from the things of the world, and gives strength to bear afflictions; but faith hath the principal work in this, and in this faith manifests much of her glory and excellency.