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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.
O let us, (say they, that have their portion here) what ever becomes of things) let us have peace (say they) that we may live peaceably in our houses, and enjoy that we have quietly, they look no further then that, because their portion is here; As for truth, how do they reject that, and contemn it; such a speech (as is credibly reported) hath come from a Citizen here even in cursing of truth, so, as had he lived amongst the Jews, he would certainly have been stoned to death; let us have peace, and a pox of truth; I say, such a speech as this, among the Jews would have caused him to have been stoned to death, being such horrible blasphemy, but how many are ready to say with Pilate;1 when as Christ talked to him of truth; truth (saith Pilate) what is truth? ⟨p. 49⟩as if he had said, what a strange man is this, the man is in danger of his life, and he talks of truth, what is truth? (saith Pilate) and turns it back upon him presently; just thus for all the world, are the hearts of many, they think what should we look at truth, or at any thing now, but to preserve our lives and estates, and outward comforts in the world; what is truth?
O let us, (say they, that have their portion here) what ever becomes of things) let us have peace (say they) that we may live peaceably in our houses, and enjoy that we have quietly, they look no further then that, because their portion is here; As for truth, how do they reject that, and contemne it; such a speech (as is credibly reported) hath come from a Citizen here even in cursing of truth, so, as had he lived amongst the Iews, he would certainly have been stoned to death; let us have peace, and a pox of truth; I say, such a speech as this, among the Iews would have caused him to have been stoned to death, being such horrible blasphemy, but how many are ready to say with Pilate;1 when as Christ talked to him of truth; truth (saith Pilate) what is truth? ⟨p. 49⟩as if he had said, what a strange man is this, the man is in danger of his life, and he talks of truth, what is truth? (saith Pilate) and turns it back upon him presently; just thus for all the world, are the hearts of many, they think what should we look at truth, or at any thing now, but to preserve our lives and estates, and outward comforts in the world; what is truth?