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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.
Now that which hath so much of ⟨p. 133⟩God in it, & comes from the eternal election and love of God; and is the greatest work that ever was done, or ever shall be done; and the greatest good that ever was, or shall be communicated to any creature for ever, truly this must needs be the greatest excellency. For God made the world for that end, that he might communicate his excellency, and glory to the world, to the creature. Now that which was the greatest thing that God intended from all eternity; for the communicating of all his glory, it must needs make the creature excellent. This is the first thing, that the Saints are the excellent on earth in regard of the image of God upon them, and the work of grace in them.
Now that which hath so much of ⟨p. 133⟩God in it, & comes from the eternall election and love of God; and is the greatest work that ever was done, or ever shall be done; and the greatest good that ever was, or shall be communicated to any creature for ever, truly this must needs be the greatest excellency. For God made the world for that end, that he might communicate his excellency, and glory to the world, to the creature. Now that which was the greatest thing that God intended from all eternity; for the communicating of all his glory, it must needs make the creature excellent. This is the first thing, that the Saints are the excellent on earth in regard of the image of God upon them, and the work of grace in them.
But secondly, they are the excellent of the earth, in regard of the separating of them for God: they are those that God set his thoughts upon from all eternity, that they might enjoy him. The great counsels that God wrought from all eternity, especially ⟨p. 134⟩were set on work upon this great thing of separating of certain creatures for himself from the rest of the world.