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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.
For 1. Saul was a man chosen immediately by God himself to be the first King that ever was over his own people, and was not that a great favour.
2. Saul for his person was one of the godliest men that was amongst all Israel; higher from the shoulders to the head, then any of them; and for his endowments he was a man, whom God did endow with admirable gifts of government, he caused another spirit to come upon him; he was a man that when he heard of his preferment, seemed to be very humble, as judging himself unworthy of such a dignity, saying, 1who am I,and what is my Fathers house, that I should be thus exalted; and when he had been chosen, some that would reject him, notwithstanding Gods honouring of him, ⟨p. 12⟩Saul had a mighty power over his spirit, he was very week and a quiet man; for the Text saith, 2he held his peace, when the Children of Belial said, what have we to do with him; yea.
3. Though he were quiet in his own cause, yet he showed himself to have an excellent spirit in a public cause, he was full of anger: when it was for the good of the people that he was a governor over: when he heard of a dishonour done to the people of Israel, the Text saith, that