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…

Secondly, Those who do things ¹out of singularity, they care less for such things they do out of that principle, when they come to be common, then they did before; But it is not so here in the ways of godliness; the more common they grow, the better they are, the more doth Gods people rejoice and bless themselves in them, they are the more lovely, and amiable in their eyes.

Secondly, Those who doe things ¹out of singularitie, they care lesse for such things they doe out of that principle, when they come to bee common, then they did before; But it is not so here in the wayes of godlinesse; the more common they grow, the better they are, the more doth Gods people rejoyce and blesse themselves in them, they are the more lovely, and amiable in their eyes.

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Thirdly, Humorous singular men differ exceedingly one from ¹another, one will be singular in one thing, and another in another; but Gods people go all the same way, they have the same course with such as they never saw; Observe the spirits and ways of godly men in all places of the world, though their education, their constitution, their employments, their former principles be exceeding different, yet now for the main, they are the same, they favour and relish the same things, they delight in the same way of holiness, which evidently shows, they are led, acted, by one and the same spirit; though they may differ in some things of lesser moment one from another, yet they differ very little amongst themselves, in things wherein their difference from the world principally lies; in those things for which the world dislikes them and their ways, there is a general agreement in the spirits of all godly men in such things; As in searing ⟨p. 162⟩