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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.
And Phinehas that was so zealous, and would make use of the sword, God said, 1he would make a Covenant of peace with him; even with Phinehas that is such a fiery hot man, a Covenant of peace must be made with him, by God himself, for he did indeed by that way procure peace to Israel; for so the Text saith there in that place of Numbers, that because Phinehas was so zealous, it was (saith God) ⟨p. 52⟩that I might not consume them in my jealousy; As if he should have said, if there had not been some amongst them, that had been zealous, and as they account fiery, I would have been zealous my self, and fiery my self, and consumed them; and it was well they had such amongst them; and one day those that cry out of them, may come to see cause, to bless God for them; we had such, would not have the world put off, and gulled with the fair name of peace; we know the devil hath made much use of words in former times, and would fain make use of it, as if those that desired truth most, were not greatest friends unto peace, God forbid, but it should be so, why though it is true, we think not we have our portion here, and therefore we would not have peace upon any terms; Indeed we confess our portion lies higher, and that wherein our portion doth consist, we would have upon any terms; and therefore desire with Paul, 2If by any means, I may attain to the resurrection of the dead; ⟨p. 53⟩so if by any means, upon any terms, that I may have peace at the great day whatsoever I endure here; we would be glad that all our mountains were mountains of Olivet, but yet we would be loth to have them mountains of corruption; You read in the Kings of a 3mountain of corruption,of offence, so it is in the old Latin, now if we compare one Scripture with another, we shall find, that was no other but mount Olivet; mount Olivet was made a mountain of corruption: there Solomon did build idolatrous Temples for the honour of the Gods of his Queen, those gods that his Queen did worship,4