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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; there are a generation of men unto whom God gives out a portion,1 some comforts in this world, and here is all that they are like to have; And now set your hearts I beseech you, unto what I have to say in this argument, for meditating what to pitch upon for such an assembly, I could not determine of an argument that I thought might more reach unto the hearts of those to whom I was to speak then this, and I hope before I have done, you will find it such a serious argument that concerns us all.
- 1Doct. 1.
I have read of Gregory that being advanced to preferment, he professed that there was no Scripture that went so to his heart, that struck such a trembling into his spirit, and daunted him so much as that Scripture did, Here you have your reward, Son in your life time you have had your pleasure; O this was a dreadful Scripture that ⟨p. 10⟩sounded in his ears continually; as Jerome speaks of that Scripture, arise ye dead, and come to judgement; night and day he thought that Scripture sounded in his ears; so Gregory here, you have your reward in this life, you have had your pleasure; this was the Scripture that night and day sounded in his ears; O that it might please God to assist me so far this day, that I might make this Scripture ring in your ears, even when you lie upon your beds, after the Sermon is done, that you may not forget the sound of it, Men of this world, who have their portion in this life; if this Scripture should prove to be the portion of any one of you, of the richest in this place, woe unto him, that ever he was born, which I shall anon make out fully to you.
I have read of Gregory that being advanced to preferment, he professed that there was no Scripture that went so to his heart, that struck such a trembling into his spirit, and daunted him so much as that Scripture did, Here you have your reward, Son in your life time you have had your pleasure; O this was a dreadfull Scripture that