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and that see their need of living in a continual dependence upon God and Christ, for fresh influences, in-comes and supplies of grace, of comfort, of strength, whereby they may be enabled to act for God, and walk with God, and glorify God, and bring forth fruit to God, and withstand all temptations that tend to lead the heart from God; and that see nothing in themselves upon which they dare venture their everlasting estates, and therefore fly to the free, rich, sovereign and glorious grace of God in Christ, as to their sure and only sanctuary, Luke 18.13. Phil. 3.9. Blessed are the poor in spirit; that is, blessed are they that are truly apprehensive and sensible of their spiritual poverty, that see themselves fallen in the first Adam from all their primitive purity, excellency, and glory. There are five things we lost in our fall. 1. Our holy Image, and became vile. 2. Our Sonship, and became slaves. 3. Our Friendship, and became enemies. 4. Our Communion, and became strangers. 5. Our Glory, and became miserable. And that see an utter inability and insufficiency ⟨p. 32⟩in themselves, and in all other creatures, to deliver them out of their fallen estate.) But I am poor in spirit, therefore the Kingdom of heaven belongs to me.

and that see their need of living in a continual dependance upon God and Christ, for fresh influences, in-comes and supplies of grace, of comfort, of strength, whereby they may be inabled to act for God, and walk with God, and glorifie God, and bring forth fruit to God, and withstand all temptations that tend to lead the heart from God; and that see nothing in themselves upon which they dare venture their everlasting estates, and therefore flie to the free, rich, sovereign and glorious grace of God in Christ, as to their sure and only sanctuary, Luke 18.13. Phil. 3.9. Blessed are the poor in spirit; that is, blessed are they that are truly apprehensive and sensible of their spiritual poverty, that see themselves fallen in the first Adam from all their primitive purity, excellency, and glory. There are five things we lost in our fall. 1. Our holy Image, and became vile. 2. Our Sonship, and became slaves. 3. Our Friendship, and became enemies. 4. Our Communion, and became strangers. 5. Our Glory, and became miserable. And that see an utter inability and insufficiency