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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.
And upon this, such an one mightily longs after all the outward privileges of the Church, to enjoy all the outward ordinances of Christ after his ⟨p. 254⟩way, those that are of the seed of Jacob, they prize the excellency of Jacob as the greatest excellency, their hearts are towards it, and they rejoice in that above all the excellency in the world. If you ask what this excellency of Jacob is? it is the joining of Gods people in the way of ordinances, and duties of Gods worship in the purity of them. This in Scripture is called the excellency of Jacob, Psal. 47.4. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. It is an excellent Scripture. O, it is a blessed thing to give all to God, to let God choose our inheritance. What is our inheritance? The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. What was that? The worship of God, and his ordinances, joining with the people of God in the way of his ordinances, in his temple, those were the things that were the ordinances of God in those times; those are called the excellency of Jacob; and so it is now the excellency of a people to enjoy Gods ordinances.
And upon this, such an one mightily longs after all the outward priviledges of the Church, to enjoy all the outward ordinances of Christ after his ⟨p. 254⟩way, those that are of the seed of Iacob, they prize the excellency of Iacob as the greatest excellency, their hearts are towards it, and they rejoyce in that above all the excellency in the world. If you ask what this excellency of Iacob is? it is the joyning of Gods people in the way of ordinances, and duties of Gods worship in the purity of them. This in Scripture is called the excellency of Iacob, Psal. 47.4. He shall chuse our inheritance for us, the excellency of Iacob whom he loved. It is an excellent Scripture. O, it is a blessed thing to give all to God, to let God chuse our inheritance. What is our inheritance? The excellency of Iacob whom he loved. What was that? The worship of God, and his ordinances, joyning with the people of God in the way of his ordinances, in his temple, those were the things that were the ordinances of God in those times; those are called the excellency of Iacob; and so it is now the excellency of a people to enjoy Gods ordinancies.