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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
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 let us take heed lest there be any found that should have their hearts set more upon their lusts, then we are upon God: take all the excellencies in the world, and they are infinitely below God; how much more then is a lust? for what is a lust in comparison of all creatures in heaven and earth? and yet how are mens hearts set upon their lusts? yea, how hath thy own heart been set upon wicked lust heretofore? think then ⟨p. 12⟩with thy self what an infinite unreasonable thing is it that the heart of any man in the world, or thy own heart, should be set more upon a base lust then upon the living, eternal, and infinite God. 'Tis said of Ahab, that he sold himself to work wickedness, 1 Kings 21. 20. be thou willing then to sell thy self to God, to give up thy self to God; the hearts of the sons of men, (it is said) are set, and fully set to do evil, Eccles. 8. 11. do not thou content thy self with some faint wishes and desires after God, but let thy heart be set and fully set for God. In Micah 7. 3. it is said they do evil with both hands earnestly; mark, they do evil, and they do evil earnestly, and they do evil earnestly with both hands. Now then, for shame be not thou sluggish in doing service for thy God; do that which is good, and do it with both thy hands, and do it earnestly with all thy heart.
Againe let us take heed lest there be any found that should have their hearts set more upon their lusts, then we are upon God: take all the excellencies in the world, and they are infinitely below God; how much more then is a lust? for what is a lust in comparison of all creatures in heaven and earth? and yet how are mens hearts set upon their lusts? yea, how hath thy own heart been set upon wicked lust heretofore? thinke then ⟨p. 12⟩with thy selfe what an infinite unreasonable thing is it that the heart of any man in the world, or thy own heart, should be set more upon a base lust then upon the living, eternall, and infinite God. 'Tis said of Ahab, that he sold himselfe to worke wickednesse,