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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.
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;2 when Bernice and Agrippa came in great pomp, to the assembly; that which you have in your books translated, great pomp, it is in the Greek great fancy; all the pomp and jollity of the world, is but a mere fancy, this is their portion.
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 realitie in it; in the 25. of the Acts;2 when Bernice and Agrippa came in great pomp, to the assembly; that which you have in your books translated, great pomp, it is in the Greek great fancie; all the pomp and jollity of the world, is but a meer fancy, this is their portion.
- 1What poor things worldly men strive for.
- 225. Acts.
And 2. that they have is of a very low nature; this would be an argument we might Philosophize in, if it were fit, or if we had time, but I'll quickly pass over these things; it is of a very low nature, and not much