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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.
9 One that follows. God fully, is willing to engage and bind himself 1to God, by the most full, and strong bonds, and engagements that can be; his spirit is at the greatest liberty, when he is most strongly ⟨p. 300⟩bound to the Lord. That place in the 2 Chron. 15. 12, is very observable for this; Asa and his people enter into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul; yea so, as whosoever would not seek the Lord God, should be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman, and they sware unto the Lord with shoutings, and with trumpets, and with cornets: But were they not afterwards troubled, that they had so tied and bound themselves? would they not have thought it better to have been at more liberty? No surely, for Verse 15. the Text says, that all Judah rejoiced at the oath; and this reason is given, Because they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole soul. When any seek God with their whole heart, with their whole soul, they are not only willing to engage themselves to God, but they rejoice in their engagements: Thus Nehemiah whose heart was fully set ⟨p. 301⟩for God, did himself, and got the Princes, the Priests, Levites, and People to make a sure covenant, to write it, to seal it, Chap. 9. 38. And as if this were not engagement enough, they further enter into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in Gods Law, to observe and do all the Commandments of the Lord, and his Judgements, and his Statutes. Thus David discovers the fullness of his spirit in following after the Lord, in that he not only promises, but swears he will keep the righteous Judgements of the Lord, Psal. 119. 106. It is a sign that mens hearts are not fully taken off from their sin, when they do not fully come off in the Covenant of the Lord.
9 One that followes. God fully, is willing to engage and binde himselfe 1