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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.
But you will say; Lord, what will become of us? we have abundance of vanity in our prayers.
But you will say; Lord, what will become of us? we have abundance of vanitie in our prayers.
Therefore, that you may not be discouraged, know, that though there be many vain thoughts in prayer, yet if there be sighing and mourning, and humbling of the soul, and panting of the heart after God in groaning, and sighing, & though there be a mixture of vanity, yet there is a working of the Spirit of God, and of grace in the heart after God; know that the Lord will not charge this vanity on thee, the Lord will do away thy sin, therefore let not that discourage thee. The efficacy lies not in the excellency of thy prayer, but in the merits of Christ, and his mediation: Only Christ will ⟨p. 243⟩have somewhat of thy self in thy prayer, he will have thy heart pant, & work after him: but there may be abundance of vanity, thou drawest a line, and makest a blot, and another line, and another blot, Christ draws all fair again, and presents to his Father.
Therefore, that you may not be discouraged, know, that though there be manie vain thoughts in prayer, yet if there be sighing and mourning, and humbling of the soul, and panting of the heart after God in groning, and sighing, & though there be a mixture of vanitie, yet there is a working of the Spirit of God, and of grace in the heart after God; know that the Lord will not charge this vanitie on thee, the Lord will do away thy sin, therefore let not that discourage thee. The efficacy lies not in the excellencie of thy prayer, but in the merits of Christ, and his mediation: Onely Christ will ⟨p. 243⟩have somewhat of thy self in thy prayer, he will have thy heart pant, & work after him: but there may be abundance of vanitie, thou drawest a line, and makest a blot, and another line, and another blot, Christ draws all fair again, and presents to his Father.