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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.
But how comes it thus to pass, that men should be so greedy of this their portion? it is such an excellent portion, that they are so greedy of it? is it worth so much, that they contend so about it? this maketh way for me to slip into the 4. particular, to enquire, what kind of portion this is, that these men of the world have, therefore consider. 1. what poor things they are, that they make such a stir about; secondly, consider the tenure upon which they hold, what ever they enjoy; and thirdly, consider the mixture of evil that there is in that they enjoy; and fourthly, the blessed portion that they loose, and ⟨p. 65⟩lastly, the dreadful end that there will be to such men, that have their portion here.
But how comes it thus to passe, that men should be so greedy of this their portion? it is such an excellent portion, that they are so greedy of it? is it worth so much, that they contend so about it? this maketh way for me to slip into the 4. particular, to enquire, what kind of portion this is, that these men of the world have, therefore consider. 1. what poor things they are, that they make such a stir about; secondly, consider the tenure upon which they hold, what ever they enjoy; and thirdly, consider the mixture of evill that there is in that they enjoy; and fourthly, the blessed portion that they loose, and ⟨p. 65⟩lastly, the dreadfull end that there will be to such men, that have their portion here.
First, the poor things that men have here in this world, what are they? their comforts for the most part, are but imaginary;1 in the 8. of Hosea, Ephraim feeds upon the wind; and when a bladder is full of wind, one prick lets it quite out: so when death comes, it lets out all their comforts; wilt thou set thy heart upon that which is not, it is not, it hath no reality in it; in the 25. of the Acts;