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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.
ven, and hell, or any other thing that can be known, can never raise, can never enlarge the hearts of men so after the Lord, as the knowledge of God himself; and therefore where God is little known, no marvel though he be so little followed.
ven, and hell, or any other thing that can bee knowne, can never raise, can never inlarge the hearts of men so after the Lord, as the knowledge of God himselfe; and therefore where God is little knowne, no marvell though he be so little followed.
Secondly, unsound beginnings in 1the profession of Religion, are the cause why men do not fully follow after the Lord; their hearts are not throughly broken, not deeply humbled, the truths of God not deeply rooted at first, their souls not well principled, the foundation not well laid: If men be not well principled at first, in their entrance into the ways of God, they are like to prove but shufflers and bunglers in Religion all their days. If cloth be not wrought well at the first, though it shows fair in the Loom, yet it will shrink when it comes to wetting: the cause why many do so shrink in the wetting, when they come to suffer any thing in the ways of Religion; it is, because their hearts ⟨p. 397⟩were not well wrought at first.
Secondly, unsound beginnings in 1the profession of Religion, are the cause why men doe not fully follow after the Lord; their hearts are not throughly broken, not deepely humbled, the truths of God not deeply rooted at first, their soules not well principled, the foundation not well laid: If men be not well principled at first, in their entrance into the wayes of God, they are like to prove but shufflers and bunglers in Religion all their dayes. If cloth bee not wrought well at the first, though it shews faire in the Loome, yet it will shrinke when it comes to wetting: the cause why many doe so shrinke in the wetting, when they come to suffer any thing in the wayes of Religion; it is, because their hearts