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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30594	Moses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse, by Ieremy Burroughs.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6097; ESTC R4358	105,177	285

God then when the cause onely concernes it selfe it discovers as much stoutnesse and courage in naturall things as it does in spirituals But this strength in sufferings that comes from Faith is a strength farre more raysed in the cause of God and spirituall things then in any other In other things it may be the heart is weake full of feares knowes not how to withstand any evill but in the cause of God it findes a Principle carrying it beyond that it is otherwise There it is full of courage it is able to looke upon the face of any man to stand out against the proudest persecuters As that Martyr Alice Driver told the persecuters That though she was brought up at the Plough yet in the cause of Christ she would set her foot against the foot of any of them all Many poore weake women and children have manifested that courage and boldnesse in the cause of Christ that hath daunted the hearts of their enemies As we reade Acts 4. 13. when the Rulers Elders and Scribes saw the boldnesse of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and they tooke knowledge of them that they had beene with Jesus It was their being with Jesus it was their faith in Christ that raysed them higher then their naturall Principles so as to make their enemies to wonder at them Sixtly the power of resisting sufferings that comes from Naturall Principles is not a fruit of much humiliation brokennesse of heart seeking of God aforehand When Esther was in hazard when she was to goe about a worke wherein all her honour and her life must be ventured shee falls to fasting and prayer and causeth others to fast and pray for her and so shee came to that resolution If I perish I perish Men full of stoutnesse and naturall courage thinke that mournings for sinne breakings of the heart in godly sorrow keeping downe the Soule in humiliation make men timorous and Cowards that it abates if not wholly takes away their valour and stoutnesse but Gods people never find more courage and heavenly fortitude then after much humiliation for sinne the more brokennesse of heart for sinne the more stoutnesse and courage in resisting of sinne and in suffering any evill rather then to admit any sinne Wicked men indeed have stoutnesse and courage for the maintaining of their lusts in which the courage and stoutnesse of the world is especially let out but all the courage and stoutnesse of godly men is in opposing of sinne and in doing and suffering for God Seventhly if there be onely naturall strength to enable to a willingnesse to venture upon any way of suffering there cannot be that confidence of a good issue that Faith brings with it where that is the Principle Faith can assure the Soule that the issue shall be good whatsoever seemes to the contrarie although the sufferings seeme to be never so black and dismall Faith can looke beyond all to a glorious issue and through the assurance of this can keepe the Soule in a spirituall heavenly securitie in the midst of all evils that doe befall it The confidence of that glorious issue of all sufferings that the Faith of Saint Paul raysed his heart unto 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. is very remarkable For our light affliction which is but for a moment saith he worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory while wee looke not at things that are seene but at the things which are not seene c. Eightly Naturall Principles cannot welcome afflictions with such joy and delight as Faith can How have the Martyrs kissed and embraced the Stake accounting that day the happiest day that ever they saw It is said of the Christians in the 10. Heb. 34. That they suffered with joy the spoyling of their goods Faith does not onely enable to suffer with patience but to suffer with joy And Rom. 5. 2. Saint Paul sayth wee rejoyce in tribulations Now others by their naturall courage may encounter with afflictions and perhaps they may endure them with some patience but they cannot thus rejoyce in them Ninthly where Naturall Strength onely enables there the soule is not more humble after it hath gone through difficulties but it is puffed up as having passed through hard things and done some great matter but where Faith is the principle the soule knowes that it was not from any thing in its selfe but if it had beene left to its selfe it should have basely forsaken the cause of God it should have dishonoured God and its holy profession and therefore it rejoyces not in its selfe but in that power from on high that came in and assisted it I live saith Saint Paul but not I but Christ in me so I was able to goe through such and such straights saith a beleeving soule No not I but the vertue and power of Christ in me carried me through Of a truth saith Bernard To glory in God alone cannot be but from God alone Tenthly if the principle bee onely naturall courage although such a one may be very ready at first in denying himselfe yet if after hee be crossed more then hee expected and findes worse successe then hee looked for if he does not see some naturall good comming in hee is soone discouraged the heart sinkes as not having sufficient to uphold it and carry it out in that it hath undertaken Yet further such is the deceit of a mans owne heart as a man may suffer much out of the pride of his heart as a man may serve himselfe in serving God so he may seeke himselfe in denying himselfe in that which is the cause of God Crates the Philosopher before mentioned who cast his goods into the Sea that hee might not be hindered in the study of Philosophy Jerome calls him gloriae animal and a base slave to popular breath so many may be content to lose much and suffer much and all out of vaine-glory they may be in base slavery to the applause of men Great things out of pride did Heathens suffer for their countrey Were it not that mens hearts are desperately wicked and deceitfull one would wonder how this should bee The men of the world are ready to cast this aspersion upon all that suffer they say they suffer out of vain-glory so if they be forward in service they still say it is from the pride of their hearts when they can say nothing against the things they doe or suffer then they judge their hearts this shewes that to suffer for God or to be forward in service is a glorious thing otherwise why should they thinke men doe them to seeke glory by them but although it be a slander that arises from their malicious hearts against the truth to accuse the sufferings of Gods people of vaine glory yet certainely there may bee a principle of pride that may carry men on even here but there

way often to come upon wicked men in the very height of all their jollities As wee read of Absalom when hee had a purpose to slay his brother Amnon he bade his servants to observe when they saw his heartmerry and then to fall upon him and slay him When Belshazzar was most in his jollitie then the hand-writing came out against him When the people of Israel had their own desire and were satisfying their lusts to the full Psal 78. 29 30 31. then the wrath of God came upon them Wee read Job 20. 22 23. a threatning against the wicked That in the fulnesse of his sufficiencie hee shall be in straights When hee is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall raine it upon him while hee is eating Oh how much better is it that in the fulnesse of our sufficiencie we doe willingly and freely give God glory in an humble yeelding up of all wee have unto him then that in the fulnesse of our sufficiencie wee should be brought into most miserable straights in spight of our hearts and that by the wrath of God himself Oh how grievous a condition is that to be forced by the wrath of God to part with that which wee might have parted withall upon such sweet and honourable termes in the cause of God in testimony to his truth in his service and the expressisions of our dearest Love unto him And howsoever it is not long that you can possibly hold this prosperity that now you do enjoy Suppose the fairest that God should let things go on in an ordinary course of bounty and patience within a little while all the comforts of the world will leave you and you must leave them and what if you did for the cause of God part with them a yeere or two sooner then otherwise you should what great matter is this what is a yeare or two or ten yeeres enjoyment of them there is no such excellencie in them as that a few yeeres enjoyment of them should bee prized at any such high rate Are there not Arguments enough from all Gods love and his mercifull dealings with you to prevaile with your hearts for such a thing as this how hath God spared you in your greatest extremities when you have cryed unto him hee hath beene mercifull to you hee hath watched over you for good all your dayes hee hath done great things for you oh what infinite reason is there then that hee should have the honour of your chiefest delights and greate●● prosperitie How often to gratifie the flesh have many opportunities of spirituall good beene neglected why then should not now for the honour of God some opportunities for fleshly delights bee denyed God never gave you these things upon any other termes but that you should be willing to part with them for the honour of his name whē he calleth for them God never made you owners but stewards of them for his service and if ever you were brought to Christ into covenant with God in him you did then resigne up all unto him you professed to part with all for him you sold all for the pearle that is you were willing to part with what was sinfull for the present and as it were enter into bond to give up whatsoever you were or had to the Lord when it should bee called for But may wee not take the comfort of those blessings that God gives us Besides what hath beene said in answer to a former objection of the like nature consider these two things First have you not taken too much comfort already in them it may bee you have taken more then your share more in one moneth then God hath allowed for the whole yeere and then you have spent your comfort afore hand and had neede therefore now bee willing to deny your selfe in that which others may have comfort in and that which otherwise you might comfortably have enjoyed as Hosea 9. 1. Rejoyce not oh Israel as other people so I may say to you you are not to rejoyce so much as others may Hee that hath but a hundred pound to maintaine him the whole yeare if he shall spend almost all of it the first moneth he had neede live very sparingly the rest of the yeare Secondly what doe you with your comfort when you have it doth it fit you for service to God hath God so much the more glory from you then hee hath from others by how much the more comfort you have then others else wherefore would you have comfort if not to fit you for service cursed be that comfort that hath not an higher end then meerely to satisfie the flesh And thus much for the time wherein Moses denyed himselfe it was when he was growne up in the prime of his time then when he might have enjoyed all his honours and pleasures to the full CHAP. IX SECT 3. Faith is the principle that must carry through and make honorable all a Christins sufferings NOw followes 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 bee in an afflicted estate and this he is enabled to doe by faith for so saies the text by faith Moses refused c. It was not out of any sullen vexing humour as it is reported of Dioclesian and Maximian Herculius they suddenly gave over their Empires and cast off their honours and betooke themselves to a private life Eusebius makes the cause thereof to be a phrenzie And Nicephorus saies it was rage and madnesse arising from hence because they saw themselves labour so much in vaine for the rooting out of the Christians Master Brightman in his commentary upon the Revelation the sixt chapter and the fifteenth verse sayes it was the feare and the horrour of the Lambe that was struck into their hearts by the power of Iesus 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 feare of the Lambe 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 workes to take off the heart from the things of the world and gives strength to beare afflictions but faith hath the principall worke in this and in this faith manifests much of her glory and excellency In this chapter we have many excellent fruits of faith enabling the worthies of the Lord to doe great things but scarce any so great as this to enable to that selfe-denyall that here is recorded of Moses It was faith that carried Abraham and all the Patriarkes through their troubles David in all his troubles exercises his faith and findes