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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.
1Give me leave but in a few words, yet to put some considerations to you, and if I speak not reason in them, reject them; 1. because that you are so greedy of comforts in this world, you would fain have peace, but I hope a safe peace, and that is all we do desire; if the peace be not safe, O the blood that may follow after; we read in the 27. of the Acts v. 13. That there was indeed a calm, and the South-wind did blow softly for a while, but presently there did rise a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon; take we heed (my brethren) that we be not deluded with the softly South-wind, take heed that there be not an Euroclydon, that blows presently after; were we sure to be delivered from that same Euroclydon, we should be glad of continuance of soft blowings of the South-wind.
1Give me leave but in a few words, yet to put some considerations to you, and if I speak not reason in them, reject them; 1. because that you are so greedy of comforts in this world, you would fain have peace, but I hope a safe peace, and that is all we do desire; if the peace be not safe, O the bloud that may follow after; we read in the 27. of the Acts v. 13. That there was indeed a calme, and the South-wind did blow softly for a while, but presently there did rise a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon; take we heed (my brethren) that we be not deluded with the softly South-wind, take heed that there be not an Euroclydon, that blows presently after; were we sure to be delivered from that same Euroclydon, we should be glad of continuance of soft blowings of the South-wind.
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Can you think of a safe peace, to live under any arbitrary governments;