A30579:634
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.
So upon this that you hear this day, There are a company shall have their portion in this world, ⟨p. 357⟩and especially those that will keep any thing they have wrongfully got, many may have cause to say, Woe to us then, and unto our children.
So upon this that you hear this day, There are a company shal have their portion in this world, ⟨p. 357⟩and especially those that will keep any thing they have wrongfully got, many may have cause to say, Wo to us then, and unto our children.
7. Be willing to join with those that have suffered for God; If you would have your portion in another life, be willing to join with the sufferers for Christ; So Moses did, though he were in the way to preferment, yet he did choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; join rather with them, than with jolly blades of the world; It is safer to join with the sufferers, than to join with those that are the jolly and brave spirits. And so I have done, only desiring that the Lord would settle all home upon your spirits; If so be, because something may not be so pleasing to the palate of every one, as some other, but if for that you should reject what hath been said, and go away, and slight this Word of God, know that this Text one day, may prove to be as scalding lead in your Consciences; and that that is said concerning Doeg, in Psalm, 57. 2. may prove to be your portion; it is spoken of Doeg; This is the man (saith the Psalmist) that did not make God his trust, but trusted in his great riches; this is the man; So you may be pointed out one day, This is the man: Doeg was a great Courtier, and because he was an Officer of King Sauls, and because he had his favour, he trusted in the favour of the King, and in his riches, and what did he care for David? Yea, by the Text it appears he was one that made some show of Religion too, in the 1 of Sam. 21. 7. He was detained before the Lord: Tremelius thinks, either out of some Religious vow, or to keep the Sabbath, or somewhat concerning the Law, he was detained before the Lord, and yet he was a vile Malignant against David, and all because he trusted in the great countenance he had at Court: Now this is the man that made not God his trust, but that trusted in his great riches: the Lord forbid this Scripture should be made true of any of you; I leave this Text with you that are rich men, take heed you trust not in your