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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.
A fifth cause, is the meeting with ⟨p. 400⟩1more difficulties in Gods ways than we made account of: when Christians think only of the good and sweet that they shall meet with in Gods ways; but they do not cast in their thoughts, what the troubles are like to be, that they shall find in them; like Joseph, who dreamed of his preferment and honour that he should have above his brethren, but dreamt not of his selling into Egypt, nor of his imprisonment there: Christians should at the first entrance into Gods ways, expect the utmost difficulties; they should enter upon those terms, to encounter with great troubles, if they mean to follow God fully in them. It is a shame for any Christian to account any trouble that he meets withal in Gods ways, to be as a strange thing unto him. Because the Lord had taken S. Paul as a chosen vessel unto himself, and purposed to draw his heart fully after him; observe how God deals with him in his first entrance into his way, Acts 19. 16. I will show him ⟨p. 401⟩how great things he must suffer for my Names sake.
A fift cause, is the meeting with ⟨p. 400⟩1more difficulties in Gods ways than wee made account of: when Christians thinke onely of the good and sweet that they shall meet with in Gods wayes; but they doe not cast in their thoughts, what the troubles are like to bee, that they shall finde in them; like Ioseph, who dreamed of his preferment and honour that hee should have above his brethren, but dreamt not of his selling into Egypt, nor of his imprisonment there: Christians should at the first entrance into Gods wayes, expect the utmost difficulties; they should enter upon those termes, to incounter with great troubles, if they meane to sollow God fully in them. It is a shame for any Christian to account any trouble that he meets withall in Gods wayes, to be as a strange thing unto him. Because the Lord had takē S. Paul as a chosen vessell unto himselfe, and purposed to draw his heart fully after him; observe how God deales with him in his first entrance into his way,