Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

NOW then, there are some Evidences of Christians having their Conversation in Heaven. As we showed you some Evidences of an Earthly Conversation, so likewise of a Heavenly Conversation: that is, some demonstrations plainly to show, That the Conversations of Christians are in Heaven.

NOW then, there are some Evidences of Christians having their Conversation in Heaven. As we shewed you som Evidences of an Earthly Conversation, so likewise of a Heavenly Conversation: that is, some demonstrations plainly to shew, That the Conversations of Christians are in Heaven.

In the first place, It's plain certainly, there are Christians that have their Conversations in Heaven; First, because there are Christians that can vilify all the things of this earth: surely except they had their Conversations higher than the earth they could not so vilify the things of the earth. It's an evidence of the height of Heaven, that a man is lifted up very high, that shall look upon the very Globe of the earth as a very punctum, as a little thing: so an evidence that the hearts of the Saints are on high when they can look on the things of the earth as small; it's true, we that are upon the earth look upon the stars as small, and the earth as great; but if we were in Heaven we would look upon the stars as great and the earth as small, as Paul did, accounted all things but as dung and dross, dogs meat, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ: and Luther, that accounted the whole Turkish Empire but a Crumb that the great Master of the Family casts to his dog: surely here's an argument that the Saints have their Conversations in Heaven that can look upon the things of the earth as so mean, and so little, as indeed they are.

In the first place, It's plain certainly, there are Christians that have their Conversations in Heaven; First, because there are Christians that can vilifie all the things of this earth: surely except they had their Conversations higher than the earth they could not so vilifie the things of the earth. It's an evidence of the height of Heaven, that a man is lifted up very high, that shall look vpon the very Globe of the earth as a very punctum, as a little thing: so an evidence that the hearts of the Saints are on high when they can look on the things of the earth as smal; it's true, we that are upon the earth look upon the stars as small, and the earth as great; but if we were in Heaven we would look upon the stars as great and the earth as small, as Paul did, accounted all things but as dung and drosse, dogs meat, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ: and Luther, that accounted the whol Turkish Empire but a Crumb that the great Master of the Family casts to his dog: surely here's an argument that the Saints have their Conversations in Heaven that can look upon the things of the earth as so mean, and so little, as indeed they are.