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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.
But what is there in the Saints that makes them the excellent in the earth? The Saints that are the excellent. The word in the original signifies the magnificent ones; those that have magnificent spirits, and are exceeding glorious.
But what is there in the Saints that makes them the excellent in the earth? The Saints that are the excellent. The word in the originall signifies the magnificent ones; those that have magnificent spirits, and are exceeding glorious.
There is this in them (that I may briefly pass over this first.)
There is this in them (that I may briefly passe over this first.)
1They have the image of God upon them, and therefore they must needs be the excellent on earth. The image of God makes them to resemble God in that which the creature is able to conceive of; That which is the height of Gods excellency: though it be true, whatsoever is in God is God himself: yet we conceiving of God according to our manner of speaking, there is something of God that appears most excellent, and glorious. And it must needs be in regard of that expression, because grace is called the image of God. Now when we draw the image of a thing, we draw it as near as we can according to that which is the most proper excellency of that thing. ⟨p. 127⟩If I would draw the image of a man, I do not draw the likeness of a piece of flesh, a beast hath that as well as a man; or I do not draw feet or legs, or the back parts of a man: but when the image of a man is drawn, his face is chiefly looked after to be drawn, which is the most excellentest part of man; and there we endeavour to express his life, and spirit as much as can be: for that is the most excellent part; and though the spirit cannot be drawn, and there can be no picture of it; yet because it is shown most in the face, that is, as near as we can go, that is drawn there.