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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.
1 By this a man comes to have a more full presence of God with him, 1than any other man can have; such a man is nearer unto God than others, he hath more of the nature of God, than others; is more capable of the presence of God, than others; and God delights to let out himself more to him than to others: These are filled with all the fullness of God, according to that expression of the Apostle, Ephes. 3. 19. Now this fullness of God in their spirits must needs carry them on, because it so satisfies them, as they feel no need of other things. Empty spirits are always sucking and drawing of comfort from the creatures that are about them, & hence it is that their hearts ⟨p. 406⟩are taken off from God so much. Again, a spirit that is filled with God, is not so sensible of any evils that are without, so as empty spirits are; as it is in the body when it is filled with good nourishment, with good blood and spirits, it is not sensible of cold, and alteration of weather, as the body is that is empty, and filled only with wind.
1 By this a man comes to have a more full presence of God with him, 1than any other man can have; such a man is nearer unto God than others, hee hath more of the nature of God, than others; is more capable of the presence of God, than others; and God delights to let out himselfe more to him than to others: These are filled with all the fulnesse of God, according to that expression of the Apostle, Ephes. 3. 19. Now this fulnesse of God in their spirits must needs carry them on, because it so satisfies them, as they feele no need of other things. Empty spirits are alwayes sucking and drawing of comfort from the creatures that are about them, & hence it is that their hearts ⟨p. 406⟩are taken off from God so much. Againe, a spirit that is filled with God, is not so sensible of any evils that are without, so as empty spirits are; as it is in the body when it is filled with good nourishment, with good blood and spirits, it is not sensible of cold, and alteration of weather, as the body is that is empty, and filled onely with winde.