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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.
Fifthly, by this that God gives to the wicked the Lord shows what great things he hath reserved for his own children; surely if the dogs have so much, the Father keeps a good house, if the hang-byes may have such doles, certainly there is good provision for the children within, as by the afflictions of the Saints, God doth declare to wicked men, and would have them draw such an argument from it; that there are fearful things that are like to befall them, if judgement begin at the house of God, where shall the wicked and ungodly appears so by the ⟨p. 27⟩prosperity that wicked men have in this world, God doth declare to his children, and he would have them argue from thence, what then hath he reserved for his beloved ones, for his Saints, for his Children that are so dear unto him.
Fifthly, by this that God gives to the wicked the Lord shews what great things he hath reserved for his own children; surely if the dogs have so much, the Father keeps a good house, if the hang-byes may have such doals, certainly there is good provision for the children within, as by the afflictions of the Saints, God doth declare to wicked men, and would have them draw such an argument from it; that there are fearfull things that are like to befall them, if judgement begin at the house of God, where shall the wicked and ungodly appears so by the ⟨p. 27⟩prosperity that wicked men have in this world, God doth declare to his children, and he would have them argue from thence, what then hath he reserved for his beloved ones, for his Saints, for his Children that are so dear unto him.
Sixthly, God fetches a great deal of glory from hence, he fetches about his own ends very much, from the portion that wicked men have; as sometimes he doth it that they might stumble and harden their hearts, and break their necks at it, and to ripen their sins, hence he lets them go on a long time, and have their wills;