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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 were a rueful spectacle, and would draw tears of blood, to see the excellent ones to have that usage that they have had. But now to see those excellent ones countenanced in a public way, especially in public courts of Justice, it is glorious, when the governors of Judah shall do it. And this we are to pray for, that it may be more and more seen amongst us, and to say no more; let us learn to honour them that God hath honoured: since they are excellent ones, and God hath put excellency upon them, do ⟨p. 153⟩you so too, look on them according as God esteems them. It is observed, that God in the time of the law did not require them to offer in sacrifice, Lions and Eagles, those brave creatures; but Lambs and Doves, mean creatures, he would have offered in sacrifice. So God doth not regard the brave spirits of the world that strut it out; but if there be any that be gracious and godly though they he never so poor and mean, as Lambs and Doves, God honours and respects them, they are a sacrifice to him; the broken heart is a sacrifice to God.1 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O Lord, thou wilt not despise. Therefore when God would lift up himself in glory, he saith, 2He that dwells in the high and lofty place. What of him? he looks to those that are of humble, and contrite hearts, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. As if there were no other subject in the world worth looking upon, he looks only to them. As a thing that is before ones eye that he prizeth, his ⟨p. 154⟩eye is fastened on that: so God looks on them as if they were the only object to be looked at; therefore let them be looked at by us with reverence in our hearts: it is fit that we should honour those that God honours.
It were a ruefull spectacle, and would draw tears of bloud, to see the excellent ones to have that usage that they have had. But now to see those excellent ones countenanced in a publick way, especially in publick courts of Iustice, it is glorious, when the governours of Iudah shall do it. And this we are to pray for, that it may be more and more seen amongst us, and to say no more; let us learn to honour them that God hath honoured: since they are excellent ones, and God hath put excellency upon them, do