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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.
Secondly consider the tenure by which they hold it; all you have in ⟨p. 75⟩the world, you hold it not by very good tenure, it is not held in Capite. I confess this, I think not the men of the world to be usurpers, for what they lawfully get in the world: I think not they shall answer merely for their using what they do, merely for their right to use what they have; but they shall answer for their not right using the same; they shall not answer (I say) for their right to use, but for their not right using; they have some right, but what right is it.
Secondly consider the tenure by which they hold it; all you have in ⟨p. 75⟩the world, you hold it not by very good tenure, it is not held in Capite. I confesse this, I think not the men of the world to be usurpers, for what they lawfully get in the world: I think not they shall answer meerely for their using what they do, meerely for their right to use what they have; but they shall answer for their not right using the same; they shall not answer (I say) for their right to use, but for their not right using; they have some right, but what right is it.
There is a 3. fold right. 1. a right of justice, that we may claim to a thing as a due: what is not your right, you cannot claim. 2. there is a right of Creation, that God gave to man at first: you have lost that right now. 3. there is a right of promise; God hath promised all good things to his people; you have not that right neither: you have neither the right of justice to claim, nor the right of your Creation, nor the right of promise; what right then?