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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.
from the men of the world, that is from mortal men, from men though of the world, yet are not like to enjoy the world long, so some translate it, 1Remember how short my time is, saith David how short, what little time I have in this world, the men of this ⟨p. 8⟩world, shall have but a little time here, the Hebrew word that is translated men, with the change of the position of one prick, signifies dead men, mortui, as well as viri, (I say) with the change not of a prick, but only of the position of one prick, of one point, it signifies dead men; they are men of the world, but such men as are within one prick of death, within one point of death, howsoever they rejoice in this life; They are men that have all they have but only leased for their lives, nay, not so much as leased, they have but an estate of life at the most, and this present life unto them, as in stead of all lives.
from the men of the world, that is from mortall men, from men though of the world, yet are not like to enjoy the world long, so some translate it, 1Remember how short my time is, saith David how short, what little time I have in this world, the men of this ⟨p. 8⟩world, shall have but a little time here, the Hebrew word that is translated men, with the change of the position of one prick, signifies dead men, mortui, as well as viri, (I say) with the change not of a prick, but onely of the position of one prick, of one point, it signifies dead men; they are men of the world, but such men as are within one prick of death, within one point of death, howsoever they rejoyce in this life; They are men that have all they have but onely leased for their lives, nay, not so much as leased, they have but an estate of life at the most, and this present life unto them, as in stead of all lives.
- 189. Psal. 47.