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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.
CAP. VI.
That it is the choiceness of a mans spirit that causes him to follow GOD fully.
That it is the choicenesse of a mans spirit that causes him to follow GOD fully.
From the reference that this 1following of God fully hath to the excellency of Calebs spirit; The Doctrine that ariseth is this, That it is the choiceness and excellency of a mans spirit, that causeth him to follow God fully. As Comets that are called blazing stars do soon vanish, because of the baseness of the matter out of which they are; but Stars in the Firmament continue; because they are of an heavenly substance: so there are many blazing Professors of Religion, who rise high for a while, but at last they come to ⟨p. 404⟩nothing, because their spirits are base and vile; but those who have heavenly and choice spirits, they god on in their way, & finish their course to the honour of God and his truth, Pro. 11. 5. The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall. Ezec. 36. 26, 27. A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, &c. And after it follows, And cause you to walk in my Statutes, and ye shall keep my Judgements, and do them. This new spirit will cause a man to walk in Gods Statutes; a man of such a spirit shall certainly keep his judgements, and do them even to the end. It is not strength of parts that will carry a man through, nor strength of Argument, nor strength of conviction, nor strength of natural conscience, nor strength of resolution, nor strength of common grace; it is only this choice excellent spirit; that other spirit, of which we have spoke so much before.