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…

First, the real sight and through sense of sin, as the greatest evil. When God leads his people weeping, and with supplications, then he brings them into a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble, Jer. 31. 9. and again, Jer. 50. 4, 5. the Lord saith, that his people shall go weeping, and seek the Lord their God, they shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thither-ward, saying, Come let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant, that shall not be forgotten. When they are led weeping in the thorough sense of their sin, then their faces are set toward Zion, and then they are willing to join themselves to God, in a perpetual Covenant.

First, the reall sight and thorow sense of sinne, as the greatest evill. Whē God leads his people weeping, and with supplications, then hee brings them into a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble, Ier. 31. 9. and againe, Ier. 50. 4, 5. the Lord saith, that his people shall goe weeping, and seeke the Lord their God, they shal aske the way to Zion, with their faces thither-ward, saying, Come let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant, that shall not be forgotten. When they are led weeping in the thorow sense of their sinne, then their faces are set toward Zion, and then they are willing to joyne themselves to God, in a perpetuall Covenant.

The second thing that will take off the heart fully, is the clear sight of ⟨p. 402⟩God in these two considerations.

The second thing that will take off the heart fully, is the cleare sight of ⟨p. 402⟩