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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

of the thing as it is And againe it workes more strongly upon my heart if I see a toade a great way off my heart stirrs not but if I see it neere as Pharaoh saw the froggs crawling upon his bed then my heart rises with loathing of it If wee could but see things now as God hath told us they shall appeare to us hereafter how mightily would they worke upon the soule howsoever there are many things that shall be seene hereafter that yet were never revealed and those things faith cannot make as present but such things as God hath revealed in his word that they shall hereafter come to passe faith may and whē it is active doth make them as present to the soule workes them upon the heart as if they did now appeare The want of this worke of faith is the cause almost of all the evill in the world and the acting of faith in this her worke in the lively and constant worke of it would produce fruites even to admiration The reason why those threates of God did not worke upon the people to whom Ezekiel preached God himselfe gives in the 12. chap. Sonne of man they say thou prophesiest of things a farre off And so for the mercies of God and the things of eternall life because the choyce of them are things to come the world with her present delights prevailes against them If you could see that glory of God in Christ and those glorious treasures of mercies that shall bee communicated and are now revealed and those dreadful evills that are now threatned and shall then be fulfilled I say if you could see them with the same eyes that now is manifested you shall see them with hereafter they would draw the hardest heart that is and bring downe the stoutest spirit that lives If you had faith you would bee able to see them so and the reason is because faith sees things as the word makes them knowne it pitches upon the word in that way that it revealeth the mind of God now the word speakes of mercies that are to come as present things and of evills that God intends to bring herafter as if God were now in the execution of them as will appeare in these scriptures Isa 52. 9. 10. Breake forth into joy sing together yee waste places of Ierusalem for the Lord hath comforted his people he hath redeemed Ierusalem the Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the eyes of all the nations thus the Prophet speakes of the deliverance of the Church from captivity as a thing done already which was not fulfilled many yeares after And David Psal 57. 2. even then when he fled from Saul in the cave hee lookes upon God as having performed all things for him the word is he hath perfected all things and that is observable that David uses the same expression of praising God here when hee was in the cave hiding himselfe to save his life as hee did when hee triumphed over his enemies Psal 6. and Psal 108. And 2 Chron. 20. from the 17. verse to the 22. as soone as Jehosaphat had received the promise he falls on praysing the Lord as if the mercy were already enjoyed praise ye the Lord for his mercy endures for ever Christ saith of Abraham John 8. 56. that he saw his day and rejoyced and was glad Christs day was unto him as if it had beene then And in the 13. verse of this chapter it is said of the godly who lived in former ages that though they saw the promises that were afarre off to be fulfilled yet the text sayes they imbraced them the word in the originall signifies they saluted them now salutations are not but betweene friends when they meet together To faith a thousand yeares are but as one day faith takes hold upon eternall life 1 Tim. 6. 19. It takes present possession of the glorious things of the kingdome of God it makes the soule to be in heaven conversing with God Christ his Saints and Angels already That which is promised faith accounts it given Gen. 35. 12. And the land which I gave to Abraham to thee will I give it it was onely promised to Abraham but Abrahams faith made it to him as given So for judgements and threatnings Esay 13. 6. Howle ye for the day of the Lord is at hand this is spoken of the destruction of Babylon which was a hundred and fifty yeares after but the word speakes of it as if it were now and so faith apprehends it the like wee may instance in many Scriptures you know it is ordinary and you who know the worke of faith you know it is as ordinary for it to looke at that which God saies as if it were now done things seene so work strongly What difference is there between mens thoughts and judgements of spirituall and eternall things in times of health in times of their sicknesse in the apprehension of death Aske them now what they thinke of grace of a good conscience of the pardon of sin of walking strictly with God Aske them now what their judgement is of Gods Saints Aske them what they thinke of eternal separation from God and the infinite wrath of a Deity for evermore now you shall finde their judgements otherwise then formerly and what is the reason of all but that things are judged now as present As despaire brings hell into the soule and puts the soule as it were into hell for the present the soule apprehends as if it were already there many in the horrour of their spirits have cryed out that they were in hell Francis Spira in the despaire of his soule cryed out verily desperation is hell it selfe So on the contrary faith brings heaven into the soule puts it as it were into heaven so that many of Gods people upon their sick beds when they have beene put in minde of heaven they have joyfully answered that they were in heaven already Faith likewise makes use of things past as if they were present as the ancient mercies of God shewed to our forefathers and Gods former dealings with our selves As Hosea 12. 4. the mercy of God to Iacob when he wrestled with him and prevailed the Church makes use of it as if it were a present mercy to themselves for so saith the text he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept and made supplication unto him hee found him in Bethel and there hee spake with us not onely with Iacob but with us whatsoever mercy God shewed to him we make it ours as if God were speaking with us and Psal 66. 6. Hee turned the sea into dry land they went through the flood on foot there did we rejoyce in them the comfort of the mercies of God for many yeares past to their forefathers they make as theirs there did wee rejoyce So all the promises that God hath made to any of his people though never so long agoe faith fetches out the comfort of

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 1 King 4. is mentioned as one of the wisest men upon the earth and hee shewes his wisedome much in this that in a time of the great affliction of the Church hee being sensible of it and about to make his complaint to God of it yet hee begins with raising his and the Churches Faith in the mercy and faithfulnesse and power of God before hee will make any mention of their calamities hee doth not begin to make his moane 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 Thus Moses Psalme 90. being about to complaine of the miseries of Gods people that they were consumed by his anger and troubled by his wrath yet begins with the acknowledging of Gods goodnesse with Arguments to strengthen Faith Lord thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations from everlasting to everlasting thou art God And thus David Psalme 37. 1. before hee beginnes his complaint hee layes downe this conclusion Truely God is good to Israel even to such as are of a cleane heart FINIS A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS B. BIrth of the greatest defiled with sinne page 15. God hath honoured us with a higher birth then what we have by bloud from our Ancestors 25. C. Lord Cobham his selfe-denyall 35. E. Examples of great men are very powerfull 85. Eminencie of parts and gifts not sufficient to carry through a godly course 200. F. Forsake all rather then offend God 77. Faith makes honourable all a Christians sufferings 148. Wherein lyes the power of Faith to take off the heart from the World 152. Tryall of our Faith 187. No Faith no perseverance 196. Comfort to those who have true Faith 249. Meanes to maintaine and strengthen Faith 255. G. Marcus Galeacius his selfe-denyall 32. Grace raises men spirits 112. H. Haters of God have beene Nobly borne 13. Hormisda his self-denyall 31. Honours to be denyed for Christ 50. Vncertainty of worldly honours 65. In the height of our enjoyment of earthly comforts we are to deny our selves 108. L. Luthers resolution 77. A testimony of deare Love to Christ to deny ones selfe for his sake 117. How to discerne Gods love in the things we doe enjoy 127. M. Moses his parts and breeding 4 Mixture of much evill in the best worldly good 60. N. Nobility of birth to bee denyed for Christ. 11. It a very poore and meane thing 16. God is infinitely worthy that it should be laid downe for his honour 20. No such way to adde glory to our Nobility as to be willing to use it or deny it for God 22. Wherein Nobility of birth is to bee denyed 27. P. Godly Parentage to bee honoured 38. Pleasures to be denyed for Christ 54. God hath greater preferments for his then the things beloved 69. Persist in godlinesse though other things be hazarded 71. In the prime of our youth and strength we are to deny our selves 104 It argues Power of grace to resist powerfull temptations R. Riches to be denyed for Christ 57. Not many Rich saved 96. Religion to be practized though it cost us deare 110. Godly resolutions how discerned 205. Good Resolutions not sufficient to carry godly sufferings 208. Resolution for Christ necessary and how attained 212. S. Service of God no disgrace to Nobilitie 46. Self-denyall ever holds out 122. Sufferings out of naturall stoutnesse how discerned 216. Sufferings out of Pride how discerned 225. Sufferings out of a Naturall Conscience how discerned 235. V. The best victory is to overcome our selves 140 Victory of Faith wherein it appeares most 183. W. Worldly blessings not to be over-joyed in 133. FINIS Christian Reader by reason of the Authors absence divers faults have escaped the Presse which thou art intreated favourably to interpret PAge 37. for besse read blesse p. 53. f. higer r. higher p. 65. f. thogh r. though p. 82. f. need r. needed p. 124. f. impsosible r. impossible p. 127. f. spirituall r. speciall p. 134. line 5. adde no. p. 145. f. greateh r. greatest p. 248. f. give r. gives Imprimatur Tho. Wykes Septemb. 1. 1640. Gen. 11. 7. 2 King 5. Augustini Ardingelli paradoxa Jesuitica Secreta instructio societatis Jesu Chryteus Chron. Saxon History of Church of Scots 2 Chron. 20. 26. Zach. 8. 19. The sense and meaning of the words cleared Doctrines raised Lib. 9. de praepar Evan. c. ult Stromat lib. 1. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioseph lib. 2. cap. 5. 3. Josph lib. 4. cap. ult 4. Ioseph lib. 2 cap. 5. Gualmyn de vita Mosis p. 1. 2. 10. 11. 1. Doct. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doct. 3. Doct. Point 1. Mihi Deorum immortalium munus primum videtur maximum in lucem statim faelicem venire Panegyr Const 1. Reas 1. Ioseph de belle Iudaico lib. 7. cap. 22. Reas 2. De parentibus illis venio qui ante me fecerunt damnatā quam natum Bern. in Medit. cap. 2. Reas 3. Tantus quisque est quantus est apud Deum Melchior Adam in vita ejus Dic quaeso quid genus est nihil aliud certe quam verbi sonitus ab omni re destitutus quod in extremo illo die probe scietis Chrys in Mat. 18. Hom. 59. Dic quaeso quid genus est nihil aliud certe quā verbi sonitus ab omni re destitutus quod in extremo illo die probè scietis Chry. in Mat. 18 Hom. 59. 4. Nam genus proavos et quae non secimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco Nemiuem regem non ex servis esse oriundum neminem servii non ex regibu● omnia ista longa varietas miscuit sursum deorsum fortuna versavit Sen. Epist 44. Alius patrem inquit habeo Martyrem Alij suae familie viros obijciunt frigida sunt ista verba Nihil nobis aliorum virtus prodesse valet Aristippus Tres vomi ca● carcinomata utinam coelebs vixissem aut orb●s perissem 2. 3. * Longelateque dilatata est magnificentia vestra supraterram sed audite consilium studete quod in vobis est hanc gloriam ad illum referre à quo est si non vultis eam perdere aut certè perdi ab ea Ber. Epist. 207. Gratius ei fuit nomen pietatis quam potestatis Tertull. Apol. advers gentes c. 34. Non praedicabo illustrem familiam alti sanguinis decus stemmata per Proconsules et praefectos decurrentia nihil in illa laudabo nisi quod proprium est eò nobilius quòd opibus nobilitate contempta facta est paupertate humilitate nobilior Epist ad Principiam virginem Mircellae Epitaph Quid magis indignum