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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.
God expects, that ever henceforward you make a more holy use of your estates then before. And call your hearts to question, what do I do with my estate for God? what honour hath God from my estate more then before? God expects more, or else God may justly say, in vain have I preserved this wretched estate: there are many of my servants, if I had preserved their estates, they would have improved them in the towns and places they lived in, and here is a wretch I have preserved his estate, ⟨p. 292⟩and he is more greedy and scrapes up for himself, and all his thought is, how to repair what he hath lost by taxations, &c. The Lord may repent of what he hath done, and the curse of God may follow such a mans estate. Take heed, know that there is an engagement after this time.
God expects, that ever henceforward you make a more holy use of your estates then before. And call your hearts to question, what do I do with my estate for God? what honour hath God from my estate more then before? God expects more, or else God may justly say, in vain have I preserved this wretched estate: there are manie of my servants, if I had preserved their estates, they would have improved them in the towns and places they lived in, and here is a wretch I have preserved his estate, ⟨p. 292⟩and he is more greedy and scrapes up for himself, and all his thought is, how to repair what he hath lost by taxations, &c. The Lord may repent of what he hath done, and the curse of God may follow such a mans estate. Take heed, know that there is an ingagement after this time.
And so for the liberty of the Gospel, God expects that you should prise the Gospel more then ever. Lord, we were afraid the Gospel would have been gone, if thou hadst given us up into the hands of our enemies, and our eyes should not have seen their teachers; we should not have heard things that refresh our hearts; shall we have the Gospel, and hope that our posterity shall have it? we hope that we shall never provoke thee as we have done heretofore to take it away. A man that hath been in danger to loose his estate, and hath recovered it, will be careful after. Our slighting of the Gospel because we had it so ordinary might have caused God to take it from us; and