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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.
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.
Is it so that wicked men have a portion here, and here is all?
First, Here we may see the Reason why the men of the world are so cunning in the things of the world, why they can make so good shift for themselves in the world, rather than other men can: Why, here's their Portion, their very happiness and good is here; no marvel though they make such shift as they do here: the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have not received the spirit of the world (saith the Apostle,) we cannot tell how to shift in the world so as other men do, for indeed, we look further than these ⟨p. 319⟩things, and so cannot shift as other men can; They that have the spirit of the world, and have their portion in the world, they can shift; but we have not received the spirit of the world. You know a Swine though it goes abroad all day wandering up and down, it knows the way to the trough at night; but a Sheep if it go a wandering a little way out of his place, a Sheep doth not know how to come back again, but wanders up and down till it be even lost, and is as a lost sheep when it is once wandering up and down; but Swine are not so. So ungodly men, though they go up and down wandering, they know how to come to their trough at night, they have better skill in the world, they are more artificial in the things of the world, they have better understanding (as the Scripture speaks,) The children of this world are wiser in their generation, than the children of light: Why is it? Their Portion is in this world. That's the first Corollary.
First, Here we may see the Reason why the men of the world are so cunning in the things of the world, why they can make so good shift for themselves in the world, rather than other men can: Why, here's their Portion, their very happiness and good is here; no mervail though they make such shift as they do here: the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have not received the spirit of the world (saith the Apostle,) we cannot tell how to shift in the world so as other men do, for indeed, we look further than these