A30608:158
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.
Then secondly, from this that he saith, in whom is all my delight. Observe this, that a gracious heart above all things in this world, takes the most contentment in the Saints of God; he is much delighted in them.
The first is but a preparation to the second: therefore I shall pass it over briefly. They are the excellent in the earth, therefore my delight is in them.
The first is but a preparation to the second: therefore I shall passe it over briefly. They are the excellent in the earth, therefore my delight is in them.
They are the excellent in the earth. Let them be what they will in regard of their outward meanness, yet there is an excellency in them. Job scraping upon the dunghill; and Jeremiah sticking in the mire in the dungeon, yet they had more glory and beauty upon them, then the greatest Potentates of the earth when they sate upon their thrones. Though they lie among the pots (as the Psalmist saith) yet are they ⟨p. 124⟩as Doves, their wings are the wings of Doves, whose feathers are of gold, and silver; Psalm. 68.13. beautiful and glorious. You know the judgement that the holy Ghost passeth upon the Saints in old time, that were outwardly mean enough, there is as much meanness on them as the malice of the world could put: the Text saith,1 they had trials of mockings, of scourgings, of bonds, and imprisonments, they were sawen asunder, they were tempted, they wandered in sheepskins, & goats skins: destitute, afflicted, tormented. What kind of creatures were these, surely they were some wretched men, and women that were thus hunted up and down to wander in sheepskins and goats-skins, destitute, afflicted and tormented? No such matter, they were such of whom the world was not worthy: v. 38. that is the judgement of the holy Ghost upon such, the world was not worthy of them.