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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 is with spiritual society in regard of spiritual union, as it is with the society of wickedness. There is bodily, fleshly wickedness, and there is spiritual wickedness. Now those that join together in gross bodily ⟨p. 165⟩wickedness, they are not so closely united as those that join in spiritual wickedness. A companion of drunkards or whoremongers, they take delight in one another, and join in wickedness, but it is corporal, therefore they soon fall out, and fly in the faces one of another. But those that join in spiritual wickedness, as politic ambitious men, men that join in mischief in a spiritual way, they keep mighty close, and you cannot easily break their bond of union; they will suffer much before they will discover one another, and break union one with another, because their union is in a way of spiritual wickedness. So on the contrary, when any are united in the spirit of holiness, they are mightily united, there is no such union under heaven as that.
It is with spirituall society in regard of spirituall union, as it is with the society of wickednesse. There is bodily, fleshly wickednesse, and there is spirituall wickednesse. Now those that joyn together in grosse bodily ⟨p. 165⟩wickednesse, they are not so closely united as those that joyn in spirituall wickednesse. A companion of drunkards or whoremongers, they take delight in one another, and joyn in wickednesse, but it is corporall, therefore they soon fall out, and fly in the faces one of another. But those that joyn in spirituall wickednesse, as politick ambitious men, men that joyn in mischief in a spirituall way, they keep mighty close, and you cannot easily break their bond of union; they will suffer much before they will discover one another, and break union one with another, because their union is in a way of spirituall wickednesse. So on the contrary, when any are united in the spirit of holinesse, they are mightily united, there is no such union under heaven as that.
We read of the curtains of the Tabernacle,