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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.
The second point follows, The excellent of the earth. In whom is all my delight.
It is but little that can be done I see, though it were the point I intended most. That that hath been said already makes way abundantly into the heart, that if they be the excellent of the earth, there is cause that we should delight in them.1 That is the point, that a gracious heart takes great delight in the Saints on earth.
- 1Observation.
First in their persons.
Or secondly in their society, and communion with them.