a choice and aprecieusfpirit. chang be oely gra.,uall,not effential, air be sin 1y the rafingof Tome natu- rail priz)ciples , fo as to enable you ro li'e in íomewhat a fairer way then youdid ; ifit bee not the work of Godbreaking yourfpirirsin pieccs,and makingof them a new, if ?r be not anew creation in you ; fuely them, yet, your Spirits are void of that true bleffedex- cellency, thatthis other fpirir bath. 2. This other fpirit wrkes from God, and for God ; it is cenfib 'e of the need it hathof continual influence from heaven, and it craws vertueand efficacy fromGod , conveying his grace to the foule , through that bleífed covenant that he hathmade with the children of men in Jefus Ghrd ; and receiving thus grace from on high, it is abed up to God himfelf, it looks at God in what it doth, it is carried out oflove to him, withunfaineddefies to lift uphis á rear Name. Morali vertues are wrought by that reafonableneffe the foule fees in fuchvertuous actions, and the higheíf pitch they reach to, is the love to that equity which appears in them to a mans reafon ; and therefore , the fpirit of a man, 203
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