Moses his choice, with his eye fixed upon heaven

Jeremiah Burroughs

1650

Contents

• od will fometimes be honoredrather with: 1
• The opening of the words with the feveral: 7
• The Reafons of the afflicted eftate of Gods: 31
• What ufe we should make of Gods ordering: 60
• Eleven Rules for preparation to fuffer: 82
• Wicked men have pleasures in ways: 99
• Who are the truly wife men with encou: 132
• The evil of an ill choice diſcovered: 145
• The drawing mens hearts to a happy choyce: 158
• 25: 159
• The true pleaſantness of all the ways: 169
• A spiritual eye can fee an excellency in Gods: 199
• What we are to learn from that high: 215
• A gracious heart will appear for the peo: 228
• Enjoyment of communion with Gods peo: 243
• Many Reasons why God order things: 263
• Perfwafions to draw to the joyning with: 265
• Inftructions to those who are joyned in com: 291
• What foever is but for a feafoncannot fatis: 317
• Exhortation to feek after eternal things: 334
• How we fhould know how it will be with: 340
• The condition of Gods people is a repoach: 348
• What ufe there is to be made of the: 362
• How we are to bear reproaches: 375
• What we should do that we may be able: 395
• The reproaches of Gods people are the: 407
• The dreadful evil there is in reproaching: 424
• fhould make his fufferings ours: 431
• A gracious heart hath a high esteem of: 439
• There is a glorious reward for the people: 477
• How far we may aim at the recompence: 485
• What is this Recompence of Reward: 494
• The differences between that good we: 501
• The perfection of the bodies and fouls: 512
• The glory that shall be put upon the Saints: 523
• The Saints enjoyment of God to be their: 529
• The happiness of the beatifical Viſion: 535
• The bleffedness of Union with God: 547
• The blessedness of communion with God: 554
• The happiness of the Saints in their frui: 569
• The Saints happiness in communion with: 579
• The happiness of enjoying communion with: 585
• The happineſs of Gods people in the per: 591
• pertains: 660
• The great things of eternity to be much: 706
• How the Recompence of reward may: 715

Popular passages

Page 147 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Page 356 - And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head ; go up, thou bald head.

Page 61 - He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.

Page 150 - The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Page 211 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Page 18 - An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

Page 343 - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Page 461 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Page 606 - O how plentiful is thy goodnefs, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee : and that thou haft prepared for them that put their truft in thee, even before the fons of men...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Moses his choice, with his eye fixed upon heaven
• Author: Jeremiah Burroughs
• Published: 1650
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Aug 17, 2006