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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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4. Those things that thou hast, are things that will vanish, and quickly come to nothing. It is said, of the whole world, in Job; 26. 7. The whole earth hangs upon nothing; and so all things of the Earth do: and therefore it is said of Abraham; in Hebrews, 11. That he sought a City that had foundations: All other things, are as things that have no foundation at all; There is a worm in every creature, that will consume it in time; and the Scripture calls all our riches, Uncertain riches; and Christian thou art made for an eternal condition, these things are fading; when thou comest to enter in upon thy eternal estate, if thou shouldst then ask, what shall I have now? I have now thus much, and thus much, in my whole life, but what shall I have now I come to enter in upon my eternal estate, truly nothing at all. If a man were to go a great Voyage to the Indies, and all the provision he makes is this, he gets a Vessel that can make shift to carry him as far as Gravesend, that he will do, and what need he hath of provision to Gravesend, or perhaps to the Downs, he provides for; he goes on, and should go on now to the Downs, and begins his Voyage to go to the Indies, and is gotten into the Ocean; alas the Vessel is a rotten Vessel; Were not this an unwise man? Truly this is the condition of thousands ⟨p. 333⟩in the world, Man, Woman, thou art ••ade for an eternal condition; God intends Eternity to every Mothers Child that is here this day, & God expects that thy life should be spent in making provision for this Eternal estate of thine, and thou thinkest of nothing but that thou mayest provide for a few years here, and live in some fashion, and be some body in the world here; Oh! when thou comest to enter upon the Ocean of Eternity, thou wilt give a dreadful shriek, and cry out, I am undone, I am undone, I have provided nothing for Eternal life; these things are very uncertain: Oh what a deal of difference there is between the same men in two or three years? I might tell you (but the time so hastens) that great difference two or three years have made between man and man, but I forbear it, because I see the time will not give leave: And yet further for the meanness of the Portion.
4. Those things that thou hast, are things that will vanish, and quickly come to nothing. It is said, of the whol world, in Job; 26. 7. The whol earth hangs upon nothing; and so all things of the Earth do: and therefore it is said of Abraham; in