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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.
We read of the curtains of the Tabernacle, Exod. 26. there were some of them that were made of purple, & scarlet, and fine linen, and their teaches that held them together were pure gold. There were others of goats hair, ⟨p. 166⟩and their buckles were brass. So it may set out the different condition of men in the Church: There are some in the Church that are truly gracious and godly, that excel in grace; and they are united by tacks of gold; their union is mighty strong and glorious in their hearts. There are others in the Church, outward professors that are carnal, that are goats hair, goats in the Church; and they maintain a union too, but it is but brass, the ground and bottom of the union is but mean; it is not such a golden union, as the union of the hearts of Gods people; there are no people under heaven so united as they.
We read of the curtains of the Tabernacle, Exod. 26. there were some of them that were made of purple, & scarlet, and fine linen, and their teaches that held them together were pure gold. There were others of goats hair, ⟨p. 166⟩and their buckles were brasse. So it may set out the different condition of men in the Church: There are some in the Church that are truly gracious and godly, that excell in grace; and they are united by tacks of gold; their union is mighty strong and glorious in their hearts. There are others in the Church, outward professours that are carnall, that are goats hair, goats in the Church; and they maintain a union too, but it is but brasse, the ground and bottome of the union is but mean; it is not such a golden union, as the union of the hearts of Gods people; there are no people under heaven so united as they.
It is true, through their corruption, there is a great deal of dissension (as there is corruption in the best) but that is as far as they are carnal; the more spiritual they grow, the more near is their union one to another, and the more entire is their love,