Burroughes - Houston-Packer Collection BS1265.6.C43 B8 1649

a choice and a precious fpirit. CHAP. XI. Rn Exhortation to labour toget this eg. cellent fpirit. IT is an de of Exhortation; let us labour to get this otherfpirit ;Eve- ry onedefires to be eminent, to be a- bove others in efiate, in.eeer, in na- tural! excellencies ; it we Would faine be emit ent, let us labour to beeminent in Spirituali bleffings, in get. ing our fouls endued with higher fpirituall ex= cellencis then others have. It is corn. mendable to ftrive tobeas eminent here as we can, efpeciallyyou whomGod hath railedhigher then your brethren in other things ; in theNobility ofyour births, the eminency of your places, the breatnes of your eflates Doe you la- our tobe high above others in theex- cellencies of your fpi its ; that as y'our birth is other, your places other, your eflateother then common ruens,foyour fpirits may be other fpirits ? Whatan excellent thing is it , to havea fpirit fu-, table toones condition ? Agreat mine' N biC.. r79 ......,y,,,__..

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