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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
Moses his self-denial delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews 11, the 24. verse, by Jeremy Burroughs.Moses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse, by Ieremy Burroughs.
London: printed by T. Paine, 1641
MOSES HIS SELF-DENIAL. › Chapter 16MOSES HIS SELFE-DENIALL. › Chapter 16
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And observe this rule, labour to strengthen and exercise your Faith, before your heart be too deeply affected with your affliction. We usually have our first and chiefest thoughts upon our Troubles, and spend the strength of our spirits in poring upon them, and tyre our selves in the workings of our unbelieving discontented spirits, giving liberty to the reasonings of our hearts, so that we are sunk before any promise can come to us, we are not able to raise up our selves, to look at a promise: But our way should be, whatsoever our condition is, first, to endeavour to strengthen our Faith, and then to make our moan to God.
And observe this rule, labour to strengthen and exercise your Faith, before your heart bee too deepely affected with your affliction. Wee usually have our first and chiefest thoughts upon our Troubles, and spend the strength of our spirits in poring upon them, and tyre our selves in the workings of our unbeleeving discontented spirits, giving libertie to the reasonings of our hearts, so that wee are sunke before any promise can come to us, wee are not able to raise up our selves, to looke at a promise: But our way should be, whatsoever our condition is, first, to endeavour to strengthen our Faith, and then to make our moane to God.
Thus did Ethan, Psal. 89. This Ethan, ⟨p. 261⟩1 King. 4. is mentioned as one of the wisest men upon the earth, and he shows his wisdom much in this, that in a time of the great affliction of the Church, he being sensible of it, and about to make his complaint to God of it, yet he begins with raising his and the Churches Faith, in the mercy, and faithfulness, and power of God, before he will make any mention of their calamities; he doth not begin to make his moan for the miseries of the Church till the thirty eighth verse, but all before is nothing but Arguments to raise and strengthen Faith, and to put that forth in the exercise of it.