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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.
and this doing, he may look up with comfort for that blessing of God upon his servants: 1 Sam. 2. 9. He keeps the feet of his Saints: His way is like the way of the Mariner, guided by the heavens.1
- 1Eadem ratione hanc vita viam quaeri oportet, qua in altoiter navibus quaeritur; nisi aliquid cali lumen observent incertis cursibus vagantur; quisquis rectum iter vitae tenere nititur, non terr'd debet aspicere sed coelu••; & ut a•ertius loquar, on hominem debet sequi, sed Deum. Lactant. l. 6. c. 8.
3. Thirdly, another spirit. that is, employed about other things; it is not for mean, base services; but set on work about high and honourable employments. As men of place and dignity have, or ought to have other spirits differing from ordinary spirits; they cannot endure to be employed in mean and dishonourable works: no, those fit for mean, base spirits. While other mens spirits are busied about low, poor things, and are content in these, minding nothing higher; they are busied about great affairs of State, the high things of the Kingdom, consultations about, and transactions of the great businesses of the Common-wealth. It was the baseness, and dishonour of Domitians ⟨p. 14⟩spirit, who though a great Emperor, yet busied himself and spent great part of his time in catching of flies; and so of Artaxerxes his spirit, who spent a great deal of time in making hafts of knives of Box.
3. Thirdly, another spirit. that is, imployed about other things; it is not for meane, base services; but set on worke about high and honourable employments. As men of place and dignity have, or ought to have other spirits differing from ordinary spirits; they cannot endure to be employed in mean and dishonorable workes: no, those fit for meane, base spirits. While other mens spirits are busied about low, poore things, and are content in these, minding nothing higher; they are busied about great affaires of State, the high things of the Kingdome, consultations about, and transactions of the great businesses of the Common-wealth. It was the basenesse, and dishonor of Domitians