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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 These are stirred with the pardoning, 1comforting, saving mercies of God, but not with the humbling, renewing, sanctifying mercies: when the word puts them upon any hard thing to flesh and blood, it is unsavoury to them, their hearts turn from it; If the word urgeth to strict examination of themselves, if it puts them upon the finding out of the deceits of their spirits, their secret corruptions, and would strain ⟨p. 326⟩them to higher duties than their principles reach unto, then their spirits fly off; they seek to bless themselves in that they have already, and think that these things trouble people more than needs & if God should not be merciful to such who find such affections, such stirrings of heart as we do, then Lord, what shall become of us?
2 These are stirred with the pardoning, 1comforting, saving mercies of God, but not with the humbling, renewing, sanctifying mercies: when the word puts them upon any hard thing to flesh and blood, it is unsavoury to them, their hearts turne from it; If the word urgeth to strict examination of themselves, if it puts them upon the finding out of the deceits of their spirits, their secret corruptions, and would straine ⟨p. 326⟩them to higher duties than their principles reach unto, then their spirits fly off; they seeke to blesse themselves in that they have already, and think that these things trouble people more than needs & if God should not bee mercifull to such who finde such affections, such stirrings of heart as wee doe, then Lord, what shall become of us?
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3 These flashy affections do not arise from spiritual judgement, apprehending the spiritual excellencies of godliness, after a spiritual manner; their apprehensions of spiritual and heavenly things, are too too carnal and sensitive: Hence afterwards when they come to find the good things of the ways of God to be spiritual, and heavenly, not suitable to those apprehensions they had of them, their hearts are then taken off, as those we read of in the 6. of John 34. verse; When Christ told them, That the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world, Oh say