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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.
And do not envy wicked men for their outward prosperity; I remember a story of a poor soldier that was condemned to die merely for taking a bunch of grapes from a Vine, for there was a strict law that who ever should take any thing from that place they ⟨p. 100⟩went through, he should dye for it. Now he had taken a bunch of grapes, and was condemned to die, and as he went to execution, he went eating of his bunch of grapes, and some came to him, and said, dost thou go eating thy grapes, thou shouldst think of somewhat else; he answers, I beseech you (Sir) do not envy me my grapes, they will cost me dear; so may I say of all the men of the world; we have no need to envy them of any thing they have, it will cost them very dear one day.
And do not envy wicked men for their outward prosperity; I remember a story of a poor souldier that was condemned to die meerely fortaking a bunch of grapes from a Vine, for there was a strict law that who ever should take any thing from that place they ⟨p. 100⟩went through, he should dye for it. Now he had taken a bunch of grapes, and was condemned to die, and as he went to execution, he went eating of his bunch of grapes, and some came to him, and said, dost thou go eating thy grapes, thou shouldst think of somewhat else; he answers, I beseech you (Sir) do not envy me my grapes, they will cost me dear; so may I say of all the men of the world; we have no need to envy them of any thing they have, it will cost them very dear one day.
Thirdly, live like such as God hath not put off with the portion of this world? manifest in it your conversations that you look for higher & better things, then what this world affords; show they are but slight in your eyes; look upon your estates as despicable, be willing to improve them all for public good, yea, to jeopard not estates only but your names, your liberties, and your lives in a public cause; and those that shall do so, however the world may look upon them