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The excellency of a gracious spirit Delivered in a treatise upon the 14. of…The excellency of a gracious spirit Deliuered in a treatise upon the 14. of…
The excellency of a gracious spirit Delivered in a treatise upon the 14. of Numbers, verse 24. By Jer. Burroughs minister of Gods Word.The excellency of a gracious spirit Deliuered in a treatise upon the 14. of Numbers, verse 24. By Ier. Burroughes minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Miles for R. Dawlman, 1639
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.
Fifthly, these are such as are fit to stand before the Lord, to have converse, 1and enjoy communion with him. Dan. 1. 4. we read, that those that were judged fit to stand in the Kings palace, before King Nebuchadnezzar, they must have no blemish, they must be well-favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, & understanding science, and taught the learning, and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Fiftly, these are such as are fit to stand before the Lord, to have converse, 1and enjoy communion with him. Dan. 1. 4. we reade, that those that were judged fit to stand in the Kings pallace, before King Nebuchadaezzar, they must have no blemish, they must bee well-favoured, and skilfull in all wisdome, and cunning in knowledge, & understanding science, and taught the learning, and the tongue of the Caldeans.
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Every spirit is not fit to stand before the King of heaven, to have converse with him; none but the reasonable creature is capable of any such thing as communion with God, and it must ⟨p. 93⟩be the reasonable creature thus raised, they must be men of other spirits. A man of an excellent spirit, cannot endure converse with base sordid spirits; much less can God, who is that blessed holy Spirit. No creature can have communion with another, but such as live the same life; hence the beast cannot have communion, with man, because mans proper life is rational; these are the spirits who being partakers of the life of God, are fitted for converse and communion with him: Likeness is the ground of all liking in communion, it is the likeness they have to God, that makes God to delight in communion with them; God loves to dwell with these, and that in a special manner.