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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.
It would be a mighty excellent honour put upon any man, if but such an honourable assembly as the Parliament, should take thought for such an one, and all their purposes and plots, and counsels all the time they are sitting should tend to the good of such an one in particular, taking notice in ⟨p. 139⟩particular of him. It is that which I said, all your wisdom, and power and mercy, and faithfulness, and the infinite all-sufficiency of God is continually every moment working, not only for the good of those that love God in general, but for every particular Saint of God. God takes special notice of them, and sets all his attributes continually on work for their good, & wellbeing.
It would be a mighty excellent honour put upon any man, if but such an honourable assembly as the Parliament, should take thought for such an one, and all their purposes and plots, and councels all the time they are sitting should tend to the good of such an one in particular, taking notice in ⟨p. 139⟩particular of him. It is that which I said, all your wisdome, and power and mercy, and faithfulnesse, and the infinite alsufficiency of God is continually every moment working, not onely for the good of those that love God in generall, but for every particular Saint of God. God takes speciall notice of them, and sets all his attributes continually on work for their good, & wellbeing.
And the heavens continually work for them. They have this privilege, that the whole world is made for them, God hath given them the world, they are the heirs of the world; as it is said of Abraham, he was the heir of the world. Rom. 4. Abraham had little himself, yet he had the world. Now the children inherit their fathers estate; if the world were Abraham's inheritance, then it is the inheritance of every child of Abraham: for so the children of Abraham are heirs to all that Abraham had, that is, as far as concerns them, therefore they that are his heirs, are heirs likewise