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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.
First, is it not a most delightful thing to see a company of godly people together to behold the resplendent beauty, and glory of the graces ⟨p. 162⟩of Gods spirit? If there were nothing else, what a delightful thing is it saith the heart? The very sight of good men is pleasing and delightful to those that look upon their faces: wisdom makes their faces shine. The seeing of the resplendent grace of God in them is very delightful. What is the delight of God, but the seeing of the shining of his glory in his works? especially when God sees that which is the shining of his highest glory, as his own grace and holiness, that God delights in most. So when a gracious heart sees his own image, & that grace that God hath wrought in him, he sees it resplendently in others, it is a delightful object.
First, is it not a most delightfull thing to see a company of godly people together to behold the resplendent beauty, and glory of the graces ⟨p. 162⟩of Gods spirit? If there were nothing else, what a delightfull thing is it saith the heart? The very sight of good men is pleasing and delightfull to those that look upon their faces: wisdome makes their faces shine. The seeing of the resplendent grace of God in them is very delightfull. What is the delight of God, but the seeing of the shining of his glory in his works? especially when God sees that which is the shining of his highest glory, as his own grace and holinesse, that God delights in most. So when a gracious heart sees his own image, & that grace that God hath wrought in him, he sees it resplendently in others, it is a delightfull object.
Again, there is a comfortable communion with them in regard of the fragrancy of grace. The beauty of grace is delightful, but the fragrancy, the breathings of grace, are sweet in the heart. The beholding of it is delightful to the eye, but the workings of their grace is exceeding sweet, and comfortable to the heart: Therefore ⟨p. 163⟩