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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.
You therefore, whom God hath honoured with excellent parts, that you may not be thus confounded another day, before the Lord and his blessed Angels, and Saints, be you restless in your spirits, till you find God hath added a further beauty to them, even the beauty of holiness, the sanctifying graces of his Holy Spirit, that may make you lovely in ⟨p. 222⟩his eyes, truly honourable before him, and for ever blessed of him. Take heed you rest not either in gifts of learning, or in gifts of morality; the gifts of morality are yet a further ornament to mens spirits, but yet they come short of those divine excellencies of spirit, that will make it blessed for ever.
You therefore, whom God hath honoured with excellent parts, that you may not be thus confounded another day, before the Lord and his blessed Angels, and Saints, bee you restlesse in your spirits, till you finde God hath added a further beautie to them, even the beautie of holinesse, the sanctifying graces of his Holy Spirit, that may make you lovely in ⟨p. 222⟩his eyes, truely honourable before him, and for ever blessed of him. Take heed you rest not either in gifts of learning, or in gifts of moralitie; the gifts of moralitie are yet a further ornament to mens spirits, but yet they come short of those divine excellencies of spirit, that will make it blessed for ever.
We read of many, who were very eminent in moral excellencies, and yet altogether strangers from the life of grace. As for example, Josephus lib. 15. c. 8. reports of Herod the King, that which would make one think, he was raised to very high moral excellencies: once making a speech to his Army, amongst other passages he hath this; Perhaps some men will say, that right and equity is on our side, but that the greater number of men, and means are with the other; but this their speech is unworthy of my followers: for with those with whom justice is, with those also God is, and where God is, there neither wants multitude, nor fortitude. And ⟨p. 223⟩