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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.
Bishop Latimer in a Sermon before King Edward, tells of one who fell away from the known truth, and after fell to mocking and scorning it, and yet was after touched in conscience for it; beware of this sin, says Latimer; for I have known no more but this one man, that ever fell from the truth, and afterwards repented; I have known many fall, but never any but this repent. Now the breach between sin and the soul in conversion, is as great as between God and the soul in Apostasy; yea, greater; for there is a possibility of reconciliation ⟨p. 307⟩in the one, but never in the other: and therefore as the one, because of this great breach between God and his soul, doth follow the Devil, and his destruction for ever; so the other, because of the breach between sin and the soul, doth follow the Lord, and his salvation for ever: as in the one, the gifts of Gods Spirit are so cast out as usually they never return again; so in the other, the unclean spirit is so cast out, as it never comes back again.
Bishop Latimer in a Sermon before King Edward, tells of one who fell away from the knowne truth, and after fell to mocking and scorning it, and yet was after touched in conscience for it; beware of this sin, sayes Latimer; for I have knowne no more but this one man, that ever fell from the truth, and afterwards repented; I have known many fall, but never any but this repent. Now the breach betweene sinne and the soule in conversion, is as great as betweene God and the soule in Apostacy; yea, greater; for there is a possibility of reconciliation ⟨p. 307⟩in the one, but never in the other: and therefore as the one, because of this great breach betweene God and his soule, doth follow the Devill, and his destruction for ever; so the other, because of the breach betweene sinne and the soule, doth follow the Lord, and his salvation for ever: as in the one, the gifts of Gods Spirit are so cast out as usually they never returne againe; so in the other, the uncleane spirit is so cast out, as it never comes back againe.