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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.
Besides those things thou hast, are things that will vanish, and quickly come to nothing; it is said of the whole world, that it hangs upon nothing;1 so all the things of the earth do: therefore it is said of Abraham, that he sought a City, that had foundations;2 all other things, are as things that have no foundation at all; there is a worm in every creature that will consume it in time; and the Scripture calls all our riches uncertain riches.
Christian, thou art made for an eternal condition; these things are fading; when thou comest to enter in upon thy eternal estate, if thou shouldst then ask, what shall I have now, I have now thus much, and thus much in my whole life; but what shall I have now I come to enter in upon ⟨p. 71⟩my eternal estate? truly nothing at all. If a man were to go a great voyage to the Indies, and all the provision he makes is this, he gets a vessel that can make shift to carry him as far as Gravesend, that he will do, and what need he hath of provision to Gravesend, or perhaps to the Downs he provides for, he goes on, & should go on now from the Downs, and begins his voyage, to go to the Indies, and is gotten into the Ocean; alas, his vessel is a rotten vessel; were not this an unwise man? truly this is the condition of thousands in the world; man, woman, thou art made for an eternal condition, God intendeth eternity for every mothers child that is here this day, and God expects that thy life should be spent in making provision for this eternal estate of thine, and thou thinkest of nothing, but that thou mayst provide for a few years here, & live in some fashion, and be some body in the world. O when thou comest to enter upon the Ocean of eternity, thou wilt give a dreadful shriek, & cry