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Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight
Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Borough.Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Burrough.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1648Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1648
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Again, it is evident that it is not in vain, because the people of God that have been wise and have conversed with God, and have known much of the mind of God, have given up themselves and all their strength to this duty. Now it were a weak part and an idle thing for any one to give up his strength and all his might to that which were vanity, and whereby there is no great thing to be obtained. It is said of Jehoshaphat 2. Chron. 20.3. that he feared, and set himself to seek the Lord. It is translated composuit faciem suam, he set his face, he gave himself up fully to seek the Lord. They know what they do that give up themselves wholly to seek God.
Indeed carnal hearts condemn the people of God because they see them so earnest in those things that they think to be vain: For it argueth weakness in any man to give up himself with all his strength to things that are vanity, and have no strength in them. Therefore because carnal men look upon the way of Religion, as a thing that hath no end, they ⟨p. 15⟩think it foolish for men to be so earnest to give up their strength and their whole souls for it: But the Saints of God know what they do when they give themselves up to seek the Lord, they know it is not in vain.
Indeed carnall hearts condemn the people of God because they see them so earnest in those things that they think to be vain: For it argueth weaknesse in any man to give up himself with all his strength to things that are vanity, and have no strength in them. Therefore because carnall men look upon the way of Religion, as a thing that hath no end, they ⟨p. 15⟩think it foolish for men to be so earnest to give up their strength and their whole souls for it: But the Saints of God know what they do when they give themselves up to seek the Lord, they know it is not in vain.