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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.
What use shall we make of it?
Let us give him real praise, and not only come to repeat it, and tell God of it, but make his praise glorious, put a glory on it; and then we do it, when we make a right use of his mercies, when we receive not his mercies in vain.
Let us give him reall praise, and not onely come to repeat it, and tell God of it, but make his praise glorious, put a glorie on it; and then we do it, when we make a right use of his mercies, when we receive not his mercies in vain.
What is to make use of the memorial we celebrate?
What is to make use of the memoriall we celebrate?
First, the remembrance of these ⟨p. 285⟩mercies must humble us; that is a sweet humbling; it is better to be melted by the beams of the Sun, then by the scorching of the fire.