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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.
Again, it is not in vain, if there were nothing but this, that we come and show what side we are of, that we join and side with God against his adversaries and for his people. But these are not the things here intended.
Again, it is not in vain, if there were nothing but this, that we come and shew what side we are of, that we joyn and side with God against his adversaries and for his people. But these are not the things here intended.
Further, it is not in vain, because there is no faithful prayer that ever was made but God accepts of it in heaven. There was never one of the seed of Jacob, that ever put up a faithful petition to God, but God took it ⟨p. 210⟩in his hand and read it. A King or any superior, when you come with a petition may refuse to take it, but God never refuseth to take any petition from a faithful soul. Therefore saith the Psalmist, Psal. 6.9. The Lord hath heard my supplication, the Lord will receive my prayer. He will take it, and look on it, and read it; and not only so, but he will also accept it, and take pleasure in it: A Prince may take a petition, and look on it, and after frown and show anger in his countenance; but God doth not so with the prayers of his people: The prayer of the upright is his delight, Prov. 15.8. he never reads a petition that his people tenders, but with a smiling countenance. If it be a faithful petition, he accepts it of them and receives it graciously. It is an expression of Luther speaking of the prayer of a contrite heart, The least sigh of a contrite heart so fills heaven with noise, that there is no noise of any thing in heaven or earth heard at that time, but only the noise of prayer. Certainly a faithful prayer taketh the ⟨p. 211⟩heart of God very much, yea every faithful prayer is recorded in heaven. You keep your letters upon the file, that you may readily find them, when you have occasion to look on such a letter sent from such a country: so God hath his file in heaven where all faithful prayers are kept upon record. As Princes have their paper offices, where transaction between one State and another are kept, so the Lord hath his prayer-office, where he keeps all the prayers of his Saints that ever were put up to him.