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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
THE SAINTS TREASURY. › HEBR. •. v. 27. the latter end of the Verse.
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.
Again, this concerns those that upon every drunken occasion, for a word or two, will venture their lives: tis true, fools will venture their lives for trifles, because they know not the worth of them; but those who know the worth of their lives will not do so. I remember a story of a Philosopher, being at Sea and in danger of his life, he was mightily afraid, and the Mariners were not at all afraid: what (say they) are you a Philosopher afraid, when we rude Mariners do not fear? I (says he) there is reason for it; for if I dye, a Philosopher is gone; but for you, your lives are not worth much: so they that are ready to venture their lives in a drunken quarrel, and will venture nothing for God, and a good cause, know not what their lives are worth, and that is the reason they are so willing to throw them away.
Again, this concernes those that upon every drunken occasion, for a word or two, will venture their lives: tis true, fooles will venture their lives for trifles, because they know not the worth of them; but those who know the worth of their lives will not doe so. I remember a story of a Philosopher, being at Sea and in danger of his life, he was mightily afraid, and the Marriners were not at all afraid: what (say they) are you a Philosopher afraid, when we rude Marriners doe not feare? I (says he) there is reason for it; for if I dye, a Philosopher is gone; but for you, your lives are not worth much: so they that are ready to venture their lives in a drunken quarrel, and will venture nothing for God, and a good cause, know not what their lives are worth, and that is the reason they are so willing to throw them away.
Again, it concerns those that in trouble and anguish of conscience are ready to lay violent hands upon themselves to take away their lives; one would think this point thus opened and applied might for ever keep back such a temptation for time to come. What an infinite desperate folly is this, ⟨p. 126⟩that I that am made sensible of Gods wrath, and am afraid of it, shall yet do that which may put me irrecoverably into it, and state me eternally in it, as they do who lay violent hands upon themselves. If any people in the world should desire the continuance of their lives, and prize them at a high rate, those that are troubled in conscience should do it; they should pray Davids prayer,