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

The Third Reason.

Their Conversations must needs be in Heaven, Because those things that are the most choice things unto them are in Heaven. I should have named a great many particulars here to show what are the choice things that concern the Saints, and how they are all in Heaven.

Their Conversations must needs be in Heaven, Because those things that are the most choice things unto them are in Heaven. I should have named a great many particulars here to shew what are the choice things that concern the Saints, and how they are all in Heaven.

Their Father, God, is in Heaven: Our Father which art in Heaven. Jesus Christ he is in Heaven; Seek the things above where Jesus Christ is sitting at the right hand of the Father. Jesus Christ that is their Head in Heaven. Their Husband is in Heaven. Their Elder Brother is in heaven. Their King is in heaven. Their Treasure is in heaven. Their Inheritance in heaven. Their Hope is in heaven. Their Mansion-house in heaven. Their chief Friends are in heaven. Their Substance is in heaven. Their Reward is in ⟨p. 232⟩heaven. Their wages are in heaven. All these things being in heaven, no marvel though their Conversations are in heaven. And they are going to Heaven; now being that they are going that way, travelling towards heaven, they must needs be there in their hearts, heaven is the place that they shall come to ere long, they shall be there, and they know that here in this world they are to be but a while, but for ever to be there, We shall be caught up into the clouds •nd be for ever with him: Yea, their Conversations must needs be in Heaven, for they have much of heaven already, there's much of heaven in the Saints, the Kingdom of Heaven it is within them, the Scripture saith: They having so much of Heaven for the present, it must needs be that their Conversation are there, and so that Scripture in the 10. Heb. 34. Knowing in your selves that ye have in Heaven a better and enduring substance. You may read it thus, Knowing you have Heaven: a better enduring substance in your selves; so that the words [knowing in your selves] hath not only reference to what they know by hear-say, though this be a true note, that they may know heaven by hear-say; they hear Ministers speak of Heaven, and read it in the Word of God, but they know it in themselves, they know it by what God hath revealed in their own hearts, yea, though t were no books that ever they should see more, though they be not book-learned, and though they cannot read a letter in the book, though they should hear no more Sermons, yet by what is revealed in themselves, They know in themselves that they have a more better and enduring substance: That's a truth. But the words may be more proper to the original, read thus: Knowing, that you have Heaven in your selves, a Better and Enduring substance: Eternal life is begun already in the hearts of the Saints, there is Heaven already in the Saints;