202 1 graciousfloirit. gifts are to bee fought after, as h nine gs that bave much excellency in their kinde 4. but it was that one pl.rle of great price that he fold all for: Iris that grace of God in. Chrift, that railes the fpirit abovea l other excellencies , and is to be prized and fought after above all things whatfoever. And that you may know, that there is a great deale of diffrence between naturali endow - menrs,morall vcrrues,and true fpiritual excc llencics; that this other fpi° it isfar beyond the excellencies of thefe, take thefe notes ofdifference. z This other fpirit is a renewed fpi- rit; A new fpirit lgive you,faith the Li: rd, in EZÇk. i z. t 9. It Bothnotarife out of principles bred up with us the Lord make., thefpirit fenfible ofits natural! Corr: ption and weakneffe, and oftheAlmighty workofhis grace up- on it. I is made another fpirit,by ahigh and fupernaturall works of God upon the foule , working a mighty change in it, creating new principles, new habits.Examine 1.' hat changehave you found in your fpirits; ifthey beno other then ever have been, yea, if the change
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