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…

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.

2 Stubbornnesse is joyned with desire of revenge; but in these dispositions, there is all pity and compassion; they pray for those who doe oppose them; when they are reviled, they revile not againe; If sometimes their corruptions should bee stirred, they are ashamed and confounded, in their own thoughts, for that they have done, they mourne and lament in the bitternesse of their spirits for it.

Thirdly, stubborn dispositions are not contracted on a sudden; it is by degrees, and continuance of time that ¹alters nature; but this disposition of being unmoveable in Gods ways comes many times even of a sudden, as soon as ever the heart is turned, which is an evidence of a new principle put into it.

Thirdly, stubborne dispositions are not contracted on a sudden; it is by degrees, and continuance of time that ¹alters nature; but this disposition of being unmoveable in Gods wayes comes many times even of a sudden, as soone as ever the heart is turned, which is an evidence of a new principle put into it.

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