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The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…
The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Jer. Burroughs.The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Ier. Burroughs.
London: printed for Francis Eglesfield, 1657
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.
Again, it must be such a one as in which, God must attain unto the great design, that he had from all eternity, in making of Heaven and Earth, which was to magnify the riches of his grace to a Company, that he had set apart to glory; it must be such a portion; and guess you what this must needs be.
Again, it must be such a one as in which, God must attain unto the great designe, that he had from all eternity, in making of Heaven and Earth, which was to magnifie the riches of his grace to a Company, that he had set apart to glory; it must be such a portion; and guesse you what this must needs be.
Yea, it is such a portion as must require the infinite power of God, to support a creature to bear the weight of that glory; and all this must be now to all eternity; I remember when Esau did but hear Isaac his Father, tell what a blessing he had given unto Jacob, he fell a weeping; O that God would so strike unto the hearts of men, that have so little minded any thing, but the world: Thou hearest but a few words, to what the Lord hath reserved to all eternity, for his Saints; and compare but that with what is thy portion, and thou hast cause to weep.
Yea, it is such a portion as must require the infinite power of God, to support a creature to bear the weight of that glory; and all this must be now to all eternity; I remember when Esau did but hear Isaac his Father, tell what a blessing he had given unto Iacob, he fell a weeping; O that God would so strike unto the hearts of men, that have so little minded any thing, but the world: Thou hearest but a few words, to what the Lord hath reserved to all eternitie, for his Saints; and compare but that with what is thy portion, and thou hast cause to weep.