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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.
I suppose that the principal scope of the holy Ghost is that which the words plainly present to our view; That we must call upon God, before ⟨p. 198⟩he will hear and answer our requests. God requires his people to call unto him, and he is pleased to be found of them; and not only to answer them, but to do abundantly for them.
I suppose that the principall scope of the holy Ghost is that which the words plainly present to our view; That we must call upon God, before ⟨p. 198⟩he will hear and answer our requests. God requires his people to call unto him, and he is pleased to be found of them; and not onely to answer them, but to do abundantly for them.
So then this point ariseth plainly out of the words, When God requires a people to him, he will make it good to them that he will answer them.
Before I open this point I will give you a Scripture or two, one in the old Testament, and another in the new, Deut. 4.7. For what Nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? Here is an experiment of the fruit of calling unto God; and it is spoken to show the honour of Gods people, the privilege of the seed of Jacob, and the eminent condition they were in. God is nigh to them in all things they call upon him for: therefore they are not required to seek God in vain. So Matth. 21.22. And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. A very strange expression: Here might