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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.
2 This other spirit works from ⟨p. 228⟩1God, and for God; it is sensible of the need it hath of continual influence from heaven, & it draws virtue and efficacy from God, conveying his grace to the soul, through that blessed covenant that he hath made with the children of men in Jesus Christ; & receiving thus grace from on high, it is acted up to God himself, it looks at God in what it doth, it is carried out of love to him, with unfeigned desires to lift up his great Name. Moral virtues are wrought by that reasonableness the soul sees in such virtuous actions, and the highest pitch they reach to is, the love to that equity which appears in them to a mans reason; and therefore the spirit of a man, that is raised no higher then these, blesseth it self rather then God in the exercise of them; It is far from drawing any virtue from God, in a way of covenant of grace, or from denying it self, and returning all the praise, and honour to God.
2 This other spirit workes from ⟨p. 228⟩1God, and for God; it is sensible of the need it hath of continuall influence from heaven, & it drawes vertue and efficacy from God, conveying his grace to the soule, through that blessed covenant that hee hath made with the children of men in Jesus Christ; & receiving thus grace from on high, it is acted up to God himselfe, it lookes at God in what it doth, it is carried out of love to him, with unfained desires to lift up his great Name. Morall vertues are wrought by that reasonablenesse the soule sees in such vertuous actions, and the highest pitch they reach to is, the love to that equity which appeares in them to a mans reason; and therefore the spirit of a man, that is raised no higher then these, blesseth it selfe rather then God in the exercise of them; It is farre from drawing any vertue from God, in a way of covenant of grace, or from denying it selfe, and returning all the praise, and honour to God.
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