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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.
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 1his anger did rise within him; an excellent pattern for all Governors, for all in public places, to be very silent, quiet, self-denying putting up wrongs, in their own cause, but to be full of zeal for the public cause; to reserve their spirits for a public good; Many, when they are angered in their private cause, and so full of violence, and spend their spirit there so much, that they have no spirit at all, when it comes to a public cause, Saul went beyond them in this.