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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.
First, if it be so, that God saith, call upon me, and I will answer thee, certainly there are great things for the Church to build on: God is to do marvellous things for his people in these latter days. Why? because all the Saints from the beginning of the world have been seeking God, not only for their own times but for the ⟨p. 274⟩Church to this very day: all their prayers are upon the file, and must be answered one day. O what a glorious harvest will it be! blessed are they that shall live to partake of it. We have a little, but certainly, there are glorious things for the Church; because every prayer shall be answered.
First, if it be so, that God saith, call upon me, and I will answer thee, certainly there are great things for the Church to build on: God is to do marvelous things for his people in these latter dayes. Why? because all the Saints from the beginning of the world have been seeking God, not onely for their own times but for the ⟨p. 274⟩Church to this very day: all their prayers are upon the fyle, and must be answered one day. O what a glorious harvest will it be! blessed are they that shall live to partake of it. We have a little, but certainly, there are glorious things for the Church; because everie prayer shall be answered.
Secondly, you that are the Saints of God, know your honour, though you be never so poor otherwise, God hath given you that which makes you rich: you have the key of heaven, you may open the treasures in heaven, and it shall never be in vain. Gods people are such as are exceeding honourable in the eyes of God, and in this regard that they have credit in heaven, that their prayers shall be heard and answered. Bathsheba saith to Solomon, 1 King. 2.20. I desire one petition of thee, I pray thee, say me not nay, It is translated by some, Ne confundas faciam, confound not my face. Indeed, the denying of a petition, it is a dishonour, and a confounding of the face: