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Gospel-conversation
Gospel-conversation: wherein is showed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Cripplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nigh, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
GOSPEL Conversation. › THE MISERY OF THOSE MEN THAT HAVE THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE.
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3. For his Endowments, he was a man whom God did endow with admirable gifts of Government: he caused another spirit to come upon him: he was a man that when he heard of his preferment, seemed to be very humble, as judging himself unworthy of such a dignity; in the first of Samuel, 9. 21. Saith he, Who am I, and what is my Fathers house, that I should be thus chosen? And when he had been chosen, some that would reject him, Children of Belial, that notwithstanding God honouring of him, yet would seek to cast dishonour upon him, yet this Saul, had mighty power over his Spirit, he was very meek and a quiet man, in the first of Samuel, 10. 27. the text saith, He held his peace, when the Children of Belial said, What have we to do with him?
3. For his Endowments, he was a man whom God did endow with admirable gifts of Government: he caused another spirit to come upon him: he was a man that when he heard of his preferment, seemed to be very humble, as judging himself unworthy of such a dignity; in the first of Samuel, 9. 21. Saith he, Who am I, and what is my Fathers house, that I should be thus chosen? And when he had been chosen, some that would reject him, Children of Belial, that notwithstanding God honoring of him, yet would seek to cast dishonor upon him, yet this Saul, had mighty power over his Spirit, he was very meek and a quiet man, in the first of Samuel, 10. 27. the text saith, He held his peace, when the Children of Belial said, What have we to do with him?
4. Though he were quiet in his own cause, yet he showed himself to have an excellent spirit of Government in him, in a public cause; he was full of anger when it was for the good of the people, that he was a Governor over; though quiet in his own; in the first of Samuel, 11. 6. When he heard of a dishonour done to the people of Israel, the Text saith, that his anger did rise within him; an excellent pattern for all Governors, for all in public places, to be very silent, and quiet, self denying; putting up wrongs in their own cause; but to be full of zeal for the public cause; to reserve their spirits for a public good: Many there are in public places, that when they are angered in their private cause; how full of Spirit they are, and they spend their Spirit there so much, that they have no spirit at all, when it comes to a public cause; Saul went beyond them in this.