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…

6 It is the same power by which he raised Christ from the dead, and set him at his right hand in the Heavens, far above all Principality, and Power, and might. Now God doth not use to put forth great power, but for great purposes; he uses not his extraordinary power, for ordinary things: when supernatural power is put forth, it is, that it might raise to supernatural operations.

6 It is the same power by which he raised Christ from the dead, and set him at his right hand in the Heavens, farre above all Principality, and Power, and might. Now God doth not use to put forth great power, but for great purposes; he uses not his extraordinary power, for ordinary things: when supernaturall power is put forth, it is, that it might raise to supernaturall operations.

3 Again, God doth put other abilities ¹into you, that others have not: that grace with which he hath endued your spirits, is a spark of his own divine nature; as you have heard, it hath a divine power with it, and a divine activity in it; that is expected from you, that none can do by an inferior power, as by the strength of parts, education, moral principles: if your lives be not ⟨p. 184⟩beyond the highest of those who have none other principles than ²such to raise them; you dishonour God, and his grace, and your holy profession.

3 Againe, God doth put other abilities ¹into you, that others have not: that grace with which hee hath endued your spirits, is a sparke of his owne divine nature; as you have heard, it hath a divine power with it, and a divine activity in it; that is expected from you, that none can doe by an inferiour power, as by the strength of parts, education, morall principles: if your lives bee not