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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.
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⟩himself most there: then also Gods people are his residence, he communicates himself there. And he communicates himself to them in a speciall manner, in four regards. 1. He communicates to his people more choise mercies. 2. He communicates mercies more fully. 3. He communicates mercies more powerfully. 4. More universally, then to others.
1. He communicates goodness among his people and Saints more choicely, more choice mercies of God. There is a remarkable place in the Psalms, The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. Psalm. 143. ult. He saith not the Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee, either out of heaven or earth, but out of Zion, as nothing that the choice mercies that God hath to communicate are out of Zion; among his people joined together in the way of worship. Would you desire that God ⟨p. 179⟩should bless you with the chief mercies that he hath? look upon God as blessing out of Zion; out of Zion God communicates his choicest mercies: therefore it concerns all to be in Zion, that they may have God to bless them out of Zion; there runs the sweetest of Gods mercies indeed in Zion.