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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, because he makes himself known to his people, more then to all the world besides. There are none that know the counsel and mind of God, so as his Saints do. God is known in Judah. Psal. 29.9. There God opens himself, In his Temple every man speaks of his glory.
First, because he makes himself known to his people, more then to all the world besides. There are none that know the counsell and mind of God, so as his Saints do. God is known in Iudah. Psal. 29.9. There God opens himself, In his Temple every man speaks of his glory.
Secondly, because God communicates himself most among his people, God is said to be in heaven. Why? but because there he manifests his glory more then in other places; therefore heaven is his habitation. If that be his habitation where he manifests himself more, then his people are his habitation, because he manifests himself most there.
Secondly, heaven is the place of Gods residence, because he communicates ⟨p. 178⟩himself most there: then also Gods people are his residence, he communicates himself there. And he communicates himself to them in a special manner, in four regards. 1. He communicates to his people more choice mercies. 2. He communicates mercies more fully. 3. He communicates mercies more powerfully. 4. More universally, then to others.
Secondly, heaven is the place of Gods residence, because he communicates ⟨p. 178⟩