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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 now to you all, the word of exhortation from God is, that every one in this place, would put on to make more sure of another portion, besides the portion of this world; put on, I say for you are all made capable of higher and better things, then the things of the world; and never a one here but hath an immortal soul, and is capable of Communion with Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that is another manner of business, then to eat and drink, and have pleasure with the flesh, here for a while; God hath made your natures capable of ⟨p. 104⟩such glory, do not debase your selves, to rest satisfied with husks, when you may have meat enough in your Fathers house; and therefore put on, and let the poorest sort put on, that have but a little portion here; yet there is as fair way for you to have the God of Heaven and Earth to be your portion, to have whatsoever Jesus Christ hath purchased by his blood to be your portion, to have eternity, and immortality to be your portion; (I say) there is as fair a way for it, as for the greatest Princes in the earth; you may come to have a portion here.
And now to you all, the word of exhortation from God is, that every one in this place, would put on to make more sure of another portion, besides the portion of this world; put on, I say for you are all made capable of higher and better things, then the things of the world; and never a one here but hath an immortall soul, and is capable of Communion with Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that is another manner of businesse, then to eat and drink, and have pleasure with the flesh, here for a while; God hath made your natures capable of ⟨p. 104⟩such glory, do not debase your selves, to rest satisfied with husks, when you may have meat enough in your Fathers house; and therefore put on, and let the poorest sort put on, that have but a little portion here; yet there is as fair way for you to have the God of Heaven and Earth to be your portion, to have whatsoever Iesus Christ hath purchased by his bloud to be your portion, to have eternitie, and immortality to be your portion; (I say) there is as fair a way for it, as for the greatest Princes in the earth; you may come to have a portion here.