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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.
Seneca was a man of as brave a spirit ⟨p. 229⟩for Morality, almost as ever lived, and yet see how far he was from working from God, and for God; observe a strange expression of his in one of his Epistles: The cause 1and foundation of a blessed life, is to trust ones self, to be confident in ones self; it is a shameful thing to weary God, saith he, in prayer for it. What needs prayer? Make thy self happy. Its a foolish thing to desire a good mind, when thou mayest have it from thy self: right reason is enough to fill up the happiness of a man.
Seneca was a man of as brave a spirit ⟨p. 229⟩for Morality, almost as ever lived, and yet see how farre hee was from working from God, and for God; observe a strange expression of his in one of his Epistles: The cause 1and foundation of a blessed life, is to trust ones selfe, to bee confident in ones selfe; it is a shamefull thing to weary God, saith hee, in prayer for it. What needs prayer? Make thy selfe happy. Its a foolish thing to desire a good mind, when thou mayest have it from thy self: right reason is enough to fill up the happynesse of a man.
- 1Beata vitaecausa et firmamentum est sibi fidere; turpe est Deo; satigare▪ Quidvotis opus est: f•• te soelicem: bonam mentem stultum est opta re, cum possis à te impetr•re: •• tio recta et con summata falicitatem •o••nis implevit.