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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
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.
To the Reader.
The order and method which we propounded to our selves, and still pursue in publishing this blessed mans Labours committed to us, is the same with his own in Preaching them; and in his Preaching stile also we present them, that so both for matter and miner they might be every way his own. We need not set him up any other Pillar or Monument then what himself erected by his own worth; and yet we may as truly say of him, as Nazianzen of Athanasius, [Greek or Hebrew], He was high in worth, but humble in heart: He dyed in the strength of his Parts and Graces, and did not wear with rust, but use: (Amplissimum vitae spatium usque ad sapientiam vivere) He did the work of him that sent him, whilst it was day, because he feared (as he would often say) a night was coming upon the Kingdom, wherein he could not work; and so he lived long in a little time.
THe order and method which we propounded to our selves, and still pursue in publishing this blessed mans Labors committed to us, is the same with his own in Preaching them; and in his Preaching stile also we present them, that so both for matter and miner they might be every way his own. We need not set him up any other Pillar or Monument then what himself erected by his own worth; and yet we may as truly say of him, as Nazianzen of Athanasius, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He was high in worth, but humble in heart: He dyed in the strength of his Parts and Graces, and did not wear with rust, but use: (Amplissimum vitae spatium usque ad sapientiam vivere) He did the work of him that sent him, whilest it was day, because he feared (as he would often say) a night was coming upon the Kingdom, wherein he could not work; and so he lived long in a little time.