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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.
A godly man though he hath but a little, yet he looks at the root, at the love of God, and the Covenant of grace, which is the spring of all, and the chief thing that satisfies his heart, it is the goodness of God that satisfies a gracious heart, and not the bare creature.
A godly man though he hath but a little, yet he looks at the root, at the love of God, and the Covenant of grace, which is the spring of all, and the chief thing that satisfies his heart, it is the goodnesse of God that satisfies a gracious heart, and not the bare creature.
Therefore examine, how your hearts are set upon these things of the world, whether your hearts go out with full strength to them; if you make your bellies to be your God, then your end will be destruction: That man that hath his heart swallowed up in the world, like Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, that were swallowed ⟨p. 90⟩in the earth; if the things of the earth be a gulf to swallow thy heart up, there is another gulf to swallow thee up hereafter. Consider how do the loss of the things of the world, take thy heart; dost not thou account thy self an undone man, when thou had lost some comforts? dost thou not come home to thy wife and children, I say, I am an undone man? why what is the matter? I have lost some part of my estate; O carnal heart! one that is Gods child may have some crosses, but no losses at all; because he enjoys all in God, and hath God still. The truth is, if thou wert truly Godly, whatever afflictions thou meetest with all, (as we say, a man may put all his gain in his eye; so you may,) if you be godly, put all your crosses in your eyes; you are so far from being undone.
Therefore examine, how your hearts are set upon these things of the world, whether your hearts go out with full strength to them; if you make your bellies to be your God, then your end will be destruction: That man that hath his heart swallowed up in the world, like Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, that were swallowed