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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.
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.
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 enemie prevails and is like to overrun all: had it not been better that I had not ingaged 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 publick instrument, and hast done good and yet if in fear of successe thou hast repented? God rebukes thee this day.
Then labour to love prayer as long as you live, as David saith, I will call upon God as long as ever live. Prayer casts the scales, and hath the advantage.