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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.
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 ⟨p. 138⟩this, therefore they are the excellent of the earth.
- 1The Saints Relation to God.
1Again, fourthly, if we consider the great privileges that the Saints have, we shall see them the excellent of the earth. Not to speak of their deliverance from sin and guiltiness, and those immunities that they have from others. But consider they have this privilege, that God in all his attributes and works, he is continually working for their good.