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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.
I appeal to thy conscience; when thou hast gone to pray to God, hast thou propounded this end? I am going ⟨p. 238⟩to tender up that worship and homage, that I a poor creature, owe to to the infinite glorious first being of all things: you call your families sometimes to come to prayer, and never think what you do, what you aim at. I and my family are now going to seek the great God in prayer, I am now going to join with my father or my master, now that we are altogether in this family to tender up that worship and homage that we poor creatures owe to that infinite glorious first being of all things whereby to testify our high respect, and esteem of him. Now if thy prayer be a customary way of prayer it is vanity, it hath not a right end.
I appeal to thy conscience; when thou hast gone to pray to God, hast thou propounded this end? I am going ⟨p. 238⟩to tender up that worship and homage, that I a poor creature, owe to to the infinite glorious first being of all things: you call your families sometimes to come to prayer, and never think what you do, what you aim at. I and my family are now going to seek the great God in prayer, I am now going to joyn with my father or my master, now that we are altogether in this family to tender up that worship and homage that we poor creatures owe to that infinite glorious first being of all things whereby to testifie our high respect, and esteem of him. Now if thy prayer be a customary way of prayer it is vanity, it hath not a right end.
It may be thou goest to prayer merely to satisfy conscience· Or some have this by end in prayer, a wicked end, that is, they think to satisfy God for their former sinful wicked ways. They take liberty in company to drink and please the flesh, and as they served themselves then, so now they will serve God, and set one against another. ⟨p. 239⟩Sometimes they will give liberty to the flesh to take contentment that way, but they will not alway do so, sometime they will be devout & serve God. There is no man so wicked as to be always in the acts of wickedness, but they think God must have his turn, and they must have their turn sometimes. And this is the prayer of many people, to put their sins in one scale, and so many devout prayers in the other scale, and the one shall poise the other. This is vanity, this is not the end of prayer.