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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.
If you look at one sometimes (though in never so mean a condition) ⟨p. 161⟩there is a great deal of delight there. As Doctor Tailor the Martyr, that we read of in the book of Martyrs coming to Bradford, he professed that it countervailed all his trouble in prison, that he was acquainted with that Angel of God John Bradford, meaning him in particular. And another that professed that he had rather be with Cato, (a heathen) for his moral excellencies, in prison then with Cesar in the Senate in all his pomp. To be shut up with one godly man is a great deal of delight and contentment: what a great deal of delight is there then in their being together, and in that way wherein most of their excellencies appear? such delight is in them jointly.
If you look at one sometimes (though in never so mean a condition) ⟨p. 161⟩there is a great deal of delight there. As Doctor Tayler the Martyr, that we read of in the book of Martyrs coming to Bradford, he professed that it countervailed all his trouble in prison, that he was acquainted with that Angel of God Iohn Bradford, meaning him in particular. And another that professed that he had rather be with Cato, (a heathen) for his morall excellencies, in prison then with Cesar in the Senate in all his pomp. To be shut up with one godly man is a great deal of delight and contentment: what a great deal of delight is there then in their being together, and in that way wherein most of their excellencies appear? such delight is in them jointly.
1First, because the most comfortable communion that possible can be is enjoyed with them, and in them: for
- 1Communion of Saints is comfortable.