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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.
Secondly, be humbled for all our murmuring and repining, and discontent, O we did not think that the wars would have held so long, and O what taxations are upon us, and all our estates rent away? And how many are there that had rather that all the good that God hath done for his people ⟨p. 286⟩since these times should never have been done, then that they should suffer in their outward estates. Be rebuked for all your murmuring and repining at such difficulties as you have met with in the great cause of God.
Secondly, be humbled for all our murmuring and repining, and discontent, O we did not think that the wars would have held so long, and O what taxations are upon us, and all our estates rent away? And how manie are there that had rather that all the good that God hath done for his people ⟨p. 286⟩since these times should never have been done, then that they should suffer in their outward estates. Be rebuked for all your murmuring and repyning at such difficulties as you have met with in the great cause of God.
The third thing that this mercy should make us humbled for, & look back to, is that if ever there have risen this thought in any of our hearts, that it had been better for me if I had never appeared so much. I see how things are like to be, the enemy prevails and is like to overrun all: had it not been better that I had not engaged my self so much? that I had not appeared so much? are they not wiser men that have kept themselves quiet and silent, and done as little as they could, nothing but what they have been forced to? And when the Kings party come, if they tax us, they can do no more then force us. If thou have such a thought, pray to God to forgive that thought: Let this that God hath done rebuke thee. Art thou sorry ⟨p. 287⟩for what thou hast done? thou seest God will do it without thee. If thou have been a public instrument, and hast done good and yet if in fear of success thou hast repented? God rebukes thee this day.