A30579:613
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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11. Doth not God for the present Curse thy portion? thou findest the more thou hast, the worse thou growest; As if a man should eat meat at ones table, and as soon as he hath eaten it, begin to swell, he will conclude certainly the meat was poisoned: So when thy estate rises, thy heart riseth with pride, surely it was poisoned with the curse of God that was in it.
11. Doth not God for the present Curse thy portion? thou findest the more thou hast, the worse thou growest; As if a man should eat meat at ones table, and assoon as he hath eaten it, begin to swell, he will conclude certainly the meat was poysoned: So when thy estate rises, thy heart riseth with pride, surely it was poysoned with the curse of God that was in it.
12. Examine thy heart by this, whether hath God convinced thee, of that which stops the great Current of His mercy, I spake of even now; that soul that hath its portion in this world, looks no further but to ⟨p. 348⟩Gods general bounty, and looks not to what stops the great Current of Gods grace, he is not brought to be sensible of his need of Christ, and of his satisfaction unto Divine Justice; but now the heart of God intends Eternal good too, such a heart the Lord causes to understand that there is such an infinite breach between God and it, as cannot be made up, but only by the Meditation of the Son of God; and therefore Lord, it is not in any righteousness of mine, nor in any thing of any creature in Heaven and Earth can do it, that I expect to have my portion from, but in the Mediation of the Son of God; that I look after, and my heart closes with that Mediation, and I look upon that as the spring of all my worth; He is a man indeed that is not like to have his portion in this world, and I'll only name that one more, What sayest thou to this?
12. Examin thy heart by this, whether hath God convinced thee, of that which stops the great Current of His mercy, I spake of even now; that soul that hath its portion in this world, looks no further but to ⟨p. 348⟩