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…

Sixthly, The choiceness of a mans ¹spirit causeth a man, that if he doth look at any consequences, that may follow upon his way, he looks only at the last issue of all, what his way will prove in his last conclusion; how things will go with him when he comes to the last trial, what will be the ultimate end of all: Will it then be peace? shall I then be glad of these ways I now walk in?

Sixthly, The choicenesse of a mans ¹spirit causeth a man, that if he doth looke at any consequences, that may follow upon his way, he lookes onely at the last issue of all, what his way will prove in his last conclusion; how things will goe with him when he comes to the last triall, what will be the ultimate end of all: Will it then be peace? shall I then be glad of these wayes I now walke in?

1. 1Fiat just•tia, etsi mundus ruat. 6

Seventhly, The choiceness of a ¹mans spirit strengthens it against the impressions that sensitive objects use to leave upon soft and weak spirits. Most men have their spirits formed, and fashioned according to sensitive objects; it is not what they apprehend in abstract notions, that works upon them, let them be what they ⟨p. 413⟩will; yet, when they have to deal with sensitive things, the sweetness, desirableness, glory of them, works the most powerfully; their hearts are altered according to the impression that they leave upon them, and this is great weakness, and an effeminate softness of spirit: Hence the word translated Effeminate,