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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.
1First, that man to whom God gives in this life, nothing but what belongs to this life, that is the man apparently; if God give thee thy estate, and if he gives thee not somewhat besides thy estate, that is a principle, that is a seed of eternal life in thee, certainly he never intends good to thee in the ⟨p. 87⟩world to come. There are many men have a great deal in this world & they say they hope, God will be merciful to them in the world to come. Now this is a certain truth, that man to whom God denies spiritual mercy in this world, God will deny eternal mercy to him in the world to come; this therefore should be thy care, doth God increase my estate in this world? O that the Lord would give a proportionable measure of grace, or else it is nothing; Lord, thou givest me here a great estate, if thou givest not to me together with it, a proportionable measure of grace to use it to thy name, I had better have been without this.
1First, that man to whom God gives in this life, nothing but what belongs to this life, that is the man apparently; if God give thee thy estate, and if he gives thee not somewhat besides thy estate, that is a principle, that is a seed of eternall life in thee, certainly he never intends good to thee in the ⟨p. 87⟩world to come. There are many men have a great deal in this world & they say they hope, God will be mercifull to them in the world to come. Now this is a certain truth, that man to whom God denies spirituall mercy in this world, God will deny eternall mercy to him in the world to come; this therefore should be thy care, doth God increase my estate in this world? O that the Lord would give a proportionable measure of grace, or else it is nothing; Lord, thou givest me here a great estate, if thou givest not to me together with it, a proportionable measure of grace to use it to thy name, I had better have been without this.
- 11. Signs of a man whose portion is in this world.1. Signes of a man whose portion is in this world.