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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.
3 Fear the least sin, more than the greatest suffering; Morality raises the spirit highest next to Grace, and yet a mere moral man, accounts it foolishness, to be so nice as not to yield in little things, for the avoiding of great sufferings; but a gracious spirit thinks the least truth ⟨p. 191⟩of God worthy to be witnessed to, by the loss of his dearest comforts, 1and suffering the greatest evils; yea, he accounts suffering for small things the most honourable sufferings of all, as testifying the greatest love; as Davids Worthies showed their dearest love to him, in venturing their lives to get him a little water.
3 Feare the least sinne, more than the greatest suffering; Morality raises the spirit highest next to Grace, and yet a meere morall man, accounts it foolishnes, to be so nice as not to yeeld in little things, for the avoyding of great sufferings; but a gracious spirit thinks the least truth ⟨p. 191⟩of God worthy to bee witnessed to, by the losse of his dearest comforts, 1and suffering the greatest evils; yea, he accounts suffering for small things the most honourable sufferings of all, as testifying the greatest love; as Davids Worthies shewed their dearest love to him, in ventring their lives to get him a little water.
- 1It was a brave spirit of Zwinglius expressing it self thus, in his 3. Epist. Q•as non oportet mortes praeetigere, quod non supplicium putius far, into inquam prosundim inferni ab•stum non incrare, quam contra conscientiam attestari?It was a brave spirit of Zwinglius expressing it selfe thus, in his 3. Epist. Q•as non oportet mortes praeetigere, quod non supplicium putius ferre, into inquam prosundim inferni ab•stum non incrare, quam contra conscientiam attestari?