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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.
The excellency of this frame of spirit, in four things.
The excellency of this frame of spirit, in foure things.
The second thing propounded in the point, was, to 1show wherein the excellency of such a kind of frame of spirit ⟨p. 314⟩lies, take it in these four things.
THe second thing propounded in the point, was, to 1shew wherein the excellency of such a kind of frame of spirit ⟨p. 314⟩lies, take it in these foure things.
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First this is truly to honour God 1as a God; except God be honoured as infinite, he is not honoured as God; now it is the full following him that only honours him as infinite; where God is followed and not thus, he is followed no otherwise than a creature may be followed; this is not therefore to honour him as a God, but rather it is a dishonour to that infinite excellency & blessedness of his, whereby he is infinitely above all that creatures are, or that they are any way capable of. The great thing that God aimed at in the creating of the heavens and earth, was, that he might by Angels, and men, be honoured as a GOD, and therefore that which gives him this, hath true and much excellency in it.