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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.
Yet further, consider, if you have ⟨p. 57⟩your eyes in your heads, that perhaps what you aim at as your end, your adversaries may aim to be as their means, and what will become of you then, if that that you would have as an end, they shall look at but as a medium; consider what consequences, may come of that.
Yet further, consider, if you have ⟨p. 57⟩your eyes in your heads, that perhaps what you ayme at as your end, your adversaries may ayme to be as their means, and what will become of you then, if that that you would have as an end, they shall look at but as a medium; consider what consequences, may come of that.
And lastly, you that do desire so much peace to preserve your own portions here, would not you willingly have such peace, as those that have appeared for you in houses of Parliament, in City, in Ministry, that have been most active be preserved too? are you so desirous of it, as to be willing to leave them to the fury and rage of their adversaries? were not this one of the horriblest wickednesses that ever was committed in a Kingdom, when men from a desire to save their own estates particularly, should betray those that have been faithful to them in their places of trust.
And lastly, you that do desire so much peace to preserve your own portions here, would not you willingly have such peace, as those that have appeared for you in houses of Parliament, in City, in Ministery, that have been most active be preserved too? are you so desirous of it, as to be willing to leave them to the fury and rage of their adversaries? were not this one of the horriblest wickednesses that ever was committed in a Kingdom, when men from a desire to save their own estates particularly, should betray those that have been faithfull to them in their places of trust.