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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 a note of an Interpreter that I ⟨p. 170⟩have met with upon Isaiah. 6. where the Angles cry Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts, the Prophet cries, Woe unto me for I am undone, &c. saith he, upon this ground, because he could not join with those blessed creatures, and so magnify, and praise, and worship God; that he through his sinfulness was not able to join with them, he cries, Woe is me, I am undone. So when any gracious heart doth but hear, that there is a people in the world that are precious ones, the excellent on earth, that join in the worship of God, and honour God in his own way, and enjoy communion with God, and I cannot join with them, woe to me that there should be any let or hinderance that I cannot come and join with them: for my heart is there, my delight is in the Saints when they are jointly together: because Gods solemn worship is there.
It is a note of an Interpreter that I ⟨p. 170⟩have met with upon Isaiah. 6. where the Angles cry Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts, the Prophet cryes, Woe unto me for I am undone, &c. saith he, upon this ground, because he could not joyn with those blessed creatures, and so magnifie, and praise, and worship God; that he through his sinfulnesse was not able to joyn with them, he cryes, Woe is me, I am undone. So when any gracious heart doth but hear, that there is a people in the world that are precious ones, the excellent on earth, that joyn in the worship of God, and honour God in his own way, and enjoy communion with God, and I cannot joyn with them, woe to me that there should be any let or hinderance that I cannot come and joyn with them: for my heart is there, my delight is in the Saints when they are jointly together: because Gods solemne worship is there.
But thirdly, my delight is in the Saints jointly, in regard of the wonderful delight God hath in them. A