A30576:143
Four useful discourses viz. ... /Four usefull discourses viz. ... /
Four useful discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1675
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Only one thing more for the Close of all in my Text, and that is the joining of both these things together, That I learn how to be content, and how to be full. There should have been that Note.1 And that is,
Only one thing more for the Close of all in my Text, and that is the joyning of both these things together, That I learn how to be content, and how to be full. There should have been that Note.1 And that is,
- 1Obs.
That Grace will! help Men to carry themselves evenly with God, and graciously with God in variety of Conditions. Let the Condition be up and down, this way, and then another, yet Grace helps a Man to lie square any way, like a Dye; cast it which way you will it lies square: So put a gracious Heart into any Condition, Full or Empty, yet Grace will help him in any Condition whatsoever, as the Apostle saith in the Corinthians: Through Honour and Dishonour, by Evil report and Good report, by the Armour of Righteousness, on the Right hand and on the Left. We find Use of our Weapons on the Right hand, and on the Left, the Armour of Righteousness helps not only on the Left-hand to Fence off the evil of Adversity, but on the Right-hand, to Fence off the Evil of Prosperity: Here's a Christian Soldier, ⟨p. 73⟩that can make use of the Armour of Righteousness, both on the Right-hand and on the Left.
That Grace wil! help Men to carry themselves evenly with God, and graciously with God in variety of Conditions. Let the Condition be up and down, this way, and then another, yet Grace helps a Man to lie square any way, like a Dye; cast it which way you will it lies square: So put a gracious Heart into any Condition, Full or Empty, yet Grace will help him in any Condition whatsoever, as the Apostle saith in the Corinthians: Through Honour and Dishonour, by Evil report and Good report, by the Armour of Righteousness, on the Righthand and on the Left. We find Use of our Weapons on the Right hand, and on the Left, the Armour of Righteousness helps not only on the Left-hand to Fence off the evil of Adversity, but on the Right-hand, to Fence off the Evil of Prosperity: Here's a Christian Souldier,