Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

chain of Principles. 2,75 for great things from him, great aff. Exerc. 8. flrances, great enlargements, great de- liverances : yea the forgivingof great lins, and the obtaining of great íal- vation. §. 7. Fifthly, Letfuch as have received great things from God, maintain a certain greatnefs offpiritfutable to their interet in i ire. I do not mean anhaughty fpirit, fwelled with pride, for that is altoge- ther unfutable to a having. interefl in God, who beholds the proud afar off; but pa.m X33.6 an humble fpirit greatned by continu- al converfe with the great God; who by railingvp his fervants hearts to the contemplation and fruition of higher objects, maketh them toobig for this world. It is reported of Mofes that when he was come to years, or according to the original, when he was waxedgreat, Hebr. ii. z4 (in fpirit perhaps as well as in fia- turc) he didoverlook the preferments, pleafures and riches of the world, which are all there intimated, yea the menaces of it too : for it is there alfo N n 3 fail,

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