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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.
Take these convincements that it is not stubbornness, but choiceness of spirit, that carries them on so unmoveable in their way.
Take these convincements that it is not stubbornnesse, but choicenesse of spirit, that carries them on so unmoveable in their way.
1. In other things they are as yieldable, as tractable, as easy to be persuaded as any men; it is only in the matter of the Lord their God they are thus. They can bear burdens upon their shoulders, and cry out, and resist as little as any; if you will compel them to go a mile, they will be content, if it may do good, to go two, yea, as far as the shoes of the preparation of the Gospel of peace will carry them; who can bear wrongs and injuries from men better than they? stubborn-spirited men cannot do thus.
1. In other things they are as yeeldable, as tractable, as easie to bee perswaded as any men; it is only in the matter of the Lord their God they are thus. They can beare burthens upon their shoulders, and cry out, and resist as little as any; if you will compell them to goe a mile, they will be content, if it may do good, to goe two, yea, as far as the shooes of the preparation of the Gospell of peace will carry them; who can beare wrongs and injuries from men better than they? stubborne-spirited men cannot doe thus.
2 Stubbornness is joined with desire of revenge; but in these dispositions, there is all pity and compassion; they pray for those who do oppose them; when they are reviled, they revile not again; If sometimes their corruptions should be stirred, they are ashamed and confounded, in their own thoughts, for that they have done, they mourn and lament in the bitterness of their spirits for it.