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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.
Again, if you be the seed of Jacob you have the inheritance of Jacob, & account it your inheritance. What was Jacobs inheritance? Deuter. 33.2. The Lord came from Sinai and from his right hand came a fiery law. The law of God is a fiery law; yet in verse 4. Moses commanded us a law, even the ⟨p. 258⟩inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. So that though the law be a fiery law, a strict law, a severe law, yet it is the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. If you be of the congregation of Jacob you account the law of God to be part of your inheritance: not only to be that which you are bound to, that you must obey whether you will or no, but you rejoice in the law of God as your inheritance. For my part I know not a more sure note of a gracious heart then this; one that rejoiceth in Gods law as his inheritance: as you know what expressions David hath, he rejoiced in it more then in Gold and Silver, more then in the honey, and the honey-comb. It is one thing to obey Gods Law, and another to rejoice in it as an inheritance. If thou be of the seed of Jacob, thou hast the inheritance of the seed of Jacob.
Again, if you be the seed of Iacob you have the inheritance of Iacob, & account it your inheritance. What was Iacobs inheritance? Deuter. 33.2. The Lord came from Sinai and from his right hand came a fiery law. The law of God is a fiery law; yet in verse 4. Moses commanded us a law, even the ⟨p. 258⟩inheritance of the congregation of Iacob. So that though the law be a fiery law, a strict law, a severe law, yet it is the inheritance of the congregation of Iacob. If you be of the congregation of Iacob you account the law of God to be part of your inheritance: not onely to be that which you are bound to, that you must obey whether you will or no, but you rejoyce in the law of God as your inheritance. For my part I know not a more sure note of a gracious heart then this; one that rejoyceth in Gods law as his inheritance: as you know what expressions David hath, he rejoyced in it more then in Gold and Silver, more then in the honey, and the honey-comb. It is one thing to obey Gods Law, and another to rejoyce in it as an inheritance. If thou be of the seed of Iacob, thou hast the inheritance of the seed of Jacob.