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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.
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 ⟨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 joyn house to house, he burst out in a loud cry, woe to me, and to my children then. So you, that are inriched through fraud and circumvention of others, have cause to say, woe to me and my familie, what shall become of us if this be true? Oh cast away this lumber, this trash, preferre your soul before all things whatsoever.
- 15. Isaaih 8.
And if you would have your portion in another life, be willing to join with the sufferers for Christ; so Moses did, though he were in the way of preferment, yet he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasure's of sin for a season: Prise the Saints, associate with them, rather then with the jolly blades of the world. It is safer joining with sufferers, then with those brave spirits that scorn goodness, jolly blades of the world, it is safer to join