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…

Fourthly, your spirits have been made acquainted with more truths; God hath revealed to you the secrets of his Counsels, of his Kingdom; ¹he hath shown you himself, his Glory, his Majesty, Sovereignty, Holiness; he hath shown you the reality, beauty, excellency, equity of his blessed ways: He hath made known to you the certainty, the infinite consequence of the things of eternity; the vileness, pollution, poison, danger of sin: he hath given you experiences of the things of heaven, the sweetness of his ways, the distress of conscience for sin.

Fourthly, your spirits have beene made acquainted with more truths; God hath revealed to you the secrets of his Counsels, of his Kingdome; ¹he hath showne you himselfe, his Glory, his Majesty, Soveraingty, Holinesse; he hath showne you the reality, beauty, excellency, equity of his blessed wayes: Hee hath made known to you the certainty, the infinite consequence of the things of eternitie; the vilenesse, pollution, poyson, danger of sin: he hath given you experiences of the things of heaven, the sweetnesse of his wayes, the distresse of conscience for sinne.

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Fifthly, he hath separated you for himself, he hath taken you into a near ¹communion unto himself; though God is to be feared by all, yet more especially in a higher degree, he is to be feared in the assembly of his ⟨p. 185⟩Saints, and to be had in reverence of them that are about him, Psa. 89. 7.