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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.
Further, hast thou heretofore been a forward professor in religion, and hast now forsaken the ways of God; I'll give you a dreadful Scripture for this, in the 17. of Jeremiah1: All you that forsake the Lord shall be ashamed, & they that depart from me, shall be written in the earth; if thou hast been forward heretofore, and now thou comest to be more ancient, and now thou art dead, and dull, and cold —; here is a Text for thee, go home, & tremble, ⟨p. 97⟩least thou be a man, whose name is written in the earth. And 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 rises with pride, surely it was poisoned with the curse of God that was in it.
Further, hast thou heretofore been a forward professour in religion, and hast now forsaken the wayes of God; I'le give you a dreadfull Scripture for this, in the 17. of Ieremiah1: All you that forsake the Lord shall be ashamed, & they that depart from me, shall be written in the earth; if thou hast been forward heretofore, and now thou comest to be more ancient, and now thou art dead, and dull, and cold —; here is a Text for thee, go home, & tremble, ⟨p. 97⟩least thou be a man, whose name is written in the earth. And 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 rises with pride, surely it was poysoned with the curse of God that was in it.
- 117. Jerem. 13.17.