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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.
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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Fourthly, stubborn hearts do 1not use to seek God to uphold them, to strengthen them, to bless them in that way; they do not bless God for being with them, helping of them to persist in their way, as Gods servants do; they go to God to get strength to enable them to be immovable; they give God the glory of it, when they have found themselves enabled to withstand temptations.
Fourthly, stubborne hearts doe 1not use to seek God to uphold them, to strengthen them, to blesse them in that way; they doe not blesse God for being with them, helping of them to persist in their way, as Gods servants doe; they go to God to get strength to inable them to bee immoveable; they give God the glory of it, when they have found themselves inabled to withstand temptations.
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