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…

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 ⟨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.

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2. 2Uniuscu jusque casus, tanto majoris est crimin•s, quanto priusquam caderet majoris crat virtutis. Be•n. de inter. domo. c. 50.Vniuscu jusque casus, tanto majoris est crimin•s, quanto priusquam caderet majoris crat virtutis. Be•n. de inter. domo. c. 50.