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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.
God knows they would have been willing, to have been as silent as you, but suppose all the Ministers of the Kingdom, and men that had ability to appear publicly, had all been silent, so as the business had been wholly betrayed, and at length an army of Papists had risen, when you had ⟨p. 59⟩had no help to have resisted them, would you not have cried to Ministers? would you not have cried to Magistrates? would you not have cried to Parliament men? if they have ventured themselves to be faithful for you, know, you can have no peace except they have it; and it were an unworthy thing to think of your safety without theirs.
God knows they would have been willing, to have been as silent as you, but suppose all the Ministers of the Kingdom, and men that had ability to appear publickly, had all been silent, so as the businesse had been wholly betrayed, and at length an army of Papists had risen, when you had ⟨p. 59⟩had no help to have resisted them, would you not have cried to Ministers? would you not have cried to Magistrates? would you not have cried to Parliament men? if they have ventured themselves to be faithfull for you, know, you can have no peace except they have it; and it were an unworthy thing to think of your safety without theirs.
But you'll say, we would not have our estates, and peace, thus (as you speak) upon any terms, without any regard to religion, we have our portion in religion, as well as you, and we have our consciences to look after as well as you; and God forbid it should be otherwise, but that religion should prosper too with our peace, but we would not have such Sects to be maintained in the Kingdom; let us have truth and religion, but away with the sectaries.
But you'l say, we would not have our estates, and peace, thus (as you speak) upon any terms, without any regard to religion, we have our portion in religion, as well as you, and we have our consciences to look after as well as you; and God forbid it should be otherwise, but that religion should prosper too with our peace, but we would not have such Sects to be maintained in the Kingdom; let us have truth and religion, but away with the sectaries.