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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.
Know therefore that all the sweet morsels, that at any time you have so delight fully got down, they must up again; therefore willingly part with them; resolve before thou go out of this place, whatever thou hast got wrongfully, not to keep it one minute: and do it willingly, else thou canst have no comfort here or hereafter: if there be any true divinity in the world, this is true divinity; and yet it is hard to convince covetous men that have got their means this way.
Know therefore that all the sweet morsels, that at any time you have so delight fully got down, they must up again; therefore willingly part with them; resolve before thou go out of this place, whatever thou hast got wrongfully, not to keep it one minute: and do it willingly, else thou canst have no comfort here or hereafter: if there be any true divinitie in the world, this is true divinitie; and yet it is hard to convince covetous men that have got their means this way.
If there be any that have done wrong in things betrusted to them, as those that be Masters of Hospitals, be sure you keep not that, for certainly you'll curse the time, you ever took ⟨p. 114⟩it; therefore let the charge of God be strong upon you this day, cast out whatever you have got falsely. I have read a story of one, who hearing that place of Scripture read; 1Woe to them that join house to house, he burst out in a loud cry, woe to me, and to my children then. So you, that are enriched through fraud and circumvention of others, have cause to say, woe to me and my family, what shall become of us if this be true? Oh cast away this lumber, this trash, prefer your soul before all things whatsoever.
If there be any that have done wrong in things betrusted to them, as those that be Maisters of Hospitalls, be sure you keep not that, for certainly you'l curse the time, you ever took