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the world.
have
greater
riches
then
if
Goi
f
ould make
Sou
Kings
and
Qneenes.
So
that
it
might
be faid, not only for
the General",
Bley(jed
are the
pore
,
But bletfed
is
this poore man
that dwells
in
this
ftreete,
or infi:ch
a
poor
fmoakie
hole.
The
very An-
gelis of
Cod
may
Tooke
upon
you
as
a
bletled
creature,
if
yoit
have
but
a
heart to attend
'upon
the
Gofpel,
that reveales the
way
of
bleffednefs to
you
:
BlefJcd
are the
poore.
I
but
bletied
are
the poore :z fpir;t
;
what
every
poore, no
nor
.every
poverty
of
fpirir
is
not
bkfled
neither
:
'1
here
is
a
poverty
of
fpirir that
is an
evil"
,
and
in
accurfed
poverty of
fpirir
;
A man may be
a
man of
a
poore fpirit,
and
of
a
cuffed
fpirir,
becaufe
indeed
he is
a
poore
fpirit,
---
By
that
there-
fore
I
meine this,
fuch
a
man
as
is
of
a
low,
bife,
fordid fpirit,,
that
hash his
fpirit
funke
downe to
low
earthly
fen"uall
things,
as
his
higheft
and
chiefeft good
;
he
minds
no
higher good
then to
ease and
drinke,
and fatisfie his Refit,
here's
a
man
of
a
poore
fpirit,
he
is
of
a
low fpirit
indeed
:
But this poore low
fpirit
is
fordid,
is
bife
and
accurfed. You
fee many
times
poore people, they minde
thofe
meine
things
that they are
exercifed
in,
as
their adequate
obje&
;
You (hall fee
fome-
times
a
poore
woman
be
fcraping in
a
duff
-heape or dunghill
for
an
houre
together,
now
the
is
not miferable becaufe
of
that,
but
when
that
is
her adequate
ob;ea,
that
if
the
can
but
get
fix
p,;nce or
a
f
hiliìng
a
day,
fhe
thinkes
her
felfe bleffed,.
and minds
no
higher things
then
this
;
You will
fay;
this
is a
poore fpirit indeed
:
why
truely
fuck
kind
of
poore fpirits
have
the
men
of
this
world,
yea
the Princes
and
Great
ones
of
the
world
;
For
many
of
them they minnónly the
fiti.sfj'ing
o£
their fleíh, to
eat
and
drink,and
be'
unclean, as that
that
is
the
mof+
futable thing
to
their;ipirits;why there are men of
poor%
low,
bale fpirits.
Th-e
Lord would have
his Saints
to be of
lotV
fpirits
in
a
godly fence, that is, to
be
humble
;
&t
the
Lord!
would have
his
lervants
again
in
another fence,
to
be
of
high
and lofty fpirits, that
is,
that
nothing.inthe world fhould
fatif
lie
their
fpirits for
their portion but
God
himfelfe.
Here's
a
man
of
a
high
fpirit indeed
that
though
indeed
he knowes
he
unworthy
of
the
leaf"
erum
of
bread, yet
faith fueh
an
one,
though..