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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.
Again, if we consider further, the presence of God among his people, it is another argument why the Saints of God should take so much delight in other Saints, especially when they are joined together, because God is present there. The Lord is here, is the name of all their assemblies, 1The Lord dwells, and hath his tabernacle in Zion. It is a strange expression concerning the presence of God, in that he makes his people his habitation. As the people of God call God their habitation: so God calls his Church his habitation. God dwells in Zion. Psal. 90. Would you not delight to keep house with God? Where Gods people are, God keeps house: and we should long to have it our own house, and not ⟨p. 175⟩come as strangers. A man may come as a stranger, and take a bit, and be refreshed in a family; but it is not his house, But now Gods people when they go to others of the Saints they see God there, and they have that house for their house. It is called (as I told you) the house of his glory; that house that God desires to dwell in; he hath a mighty love to that house, to dwell among his people. In Psalm. 132. there are many great and excellent expressions. For the Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired it for his habitation, Psal. 132.13, 14. God desires Zion; what is Zion, but only his Saints and people joined together? Zion was a type of the Church: so now all the Saints of God together are Zion. Now God hath a desire to this habitation. God dwells in the high and holy place, the highest heaven is God habitation; but though God have such a house in heaven, yet he is not (as it were) contented with that house, but he desires another house: he hath a desire to Zion ⟨p. 176⟩to be his habitation, and the house where his honour dwelleth. You know a Prince may have some houses of meaner regard, when he goes to his sport, he may have a mean house to lodge in for a while: but his palace where he shows his Majesty, and honour, that is more glorious. So the people of God, and the Church, is called the house of Gods honour, it is not a mean house, but a house of honour.