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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.
Thus then if the superstition, and will of man having consecrated a ⟨p. 137⟩thing, thinks he puts so much excellency on it, how much more when God himself, and the great and special work of the holy Ghost that he is designed to, it is a special work of his office to consecrate souls to God, and to set them apart to himself, what an excellency must this needs be that is put upon them? They are the excellent of the earth. That is the second.
Thus then if the superstition, and will of man having consecrated a ⟨p. 137⟩thing, thinks he puts so much excellency on it, how much more when God himself, and the great and speciall work of the holy Ghost that he is designed to, it is a speciall work of his office to consecrate souls to God, and to set them apart to himself, what an excellency must this needs be that is put upon them? They are the excellent of the earth. That is the second.
1Thirdly, if we consider that relation that the Saints have to God; they are the nearest relations that can be expressed. Of children to parents; they are the children of God. Of a spouse to her husband; they are the spouse of Jesus Christ, the second person in Trinity; and in that regard they are more nearly united to God then the Angels themselves are, in being the spouse of the Son of God. Yea the very members of his body, they have a nearer relation in that respect to the divine nature, to the second person in Trinity then the Angels themselves: for they have not such a relation as ⟨p. 138⟩this, therefore they are the excellent of the earth.
1Thirdly, if we consider that relation that the Saints have to God; they are the nearest relations that can be exprest. Of children to parents; they are the children of God. Of a spouse to her husband; they are the spouse of Iesus Christ, the second person in Trinity; and in that regard they are more nearly united to God then the Angels themselves are, in being the spouse of the Son of God. Yea the very members of his body, they have a nearer relation in that respect to the divine nature, to the second person in Trinity then the Angels themselves: for they have not such a relation as