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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.
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 ⟨p. 199⟩seem to be a tautology. One would think that it had been large enough to have said, Whatsoever ye shall ask, ye shall receive: but here is, all things whatsoever. We would not speak so in ordinary language. I will give you all things whatsoever. Yet it may be, this may be intended, and I believe it is; And all things, here is the general promise, that all things that ye ask ye shall receive: and whatsoever, may refer to particulars, every particular thing that ye ask ye shall receive. You will say, any one that understands reason or Logic knoweth that particulars are included in the general. But there is this illogical reasoning of unbelief; that though we agree to the premises in general, yet when we come to particulars, we think they will not be made good to us. I suppose you find your unbelieving hearts so irrational, that though they believe the general promise, yet when it comes to particulars, and you cannot but say that such a particular is in the general, yet your hearts will not ⟨p. 200⟩come up to it. Therefore our Saviour saith not only, all things in general, but also, whatsoever, in particular.