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What Poverty
of
fpirit
is bleffed.
Thirdly
,
.Bleffed
are
they
that
are
poore
in
ff7irit; not thofe
that
fees,::
to
be poore
in
their
words,
in
their
expretlïons,
in
their
carriages
;
You
shall have many
that
will
be complaining
of
themfely
:s,
and
fay
that
they
are
thus weake, and
poore,and
vil
,
and have
nothing
in
them
,
and
yet
God
knowes
their
hearts are haughty enough,
and
proud
enough
,
that if
other
men
+.Iould
but
think
of them,
and fay
of them
as
they fpeake
of
themfelves,
they would not bare
it
:
Therefore
though
they
be poore
in
words,
yet
not
in
fpirit. There
be
force
that
will
carry
then-Selves in
a
very
poore
way, and
live verymeanly in
the world,
I
but
in
fpirit they are
not
fo,
they
goe very poore
ly,
and
feeme to
be very humble,
as
if
there were
no other
pride
but
iiicloaths
and gay
things.
But
the maim
pride
is
the pride of
mens fpirits
"Therefore
bleffed are thofe
that
are
poore
in
ff
.rir,
that
is, thofe
that
have
their
wills and
atfec-ii
ons and
underfiandings
bowed
downe
to,
God,
bleffed are
thofe that ate
fo
fincerely
pore.
In the
fourth place,
and
more efpecially and
principally
;
Ble
f
fed are
thofe
that
Are poore
in
fpirit, that
is,
fuch
as
are
true-
ly apprehenfive and fenceable.of
their
fpirituall
poverty.
NON
this
is
a
great point,
lam
now
indeed
come
unto
the point
it
felfe, That Chrifl
promifes bleflednefs
too.
Now
for
this,
there
are thefe three
things
that
I
flaall
doe
about
ir.
Firfi,
To thew
you what
is that fpirituall poverty,
that
thefe
that
are poore
an
fpirit doe
fee
and
are fencible.of.
Secondly
,
What
the
behaviour of
the heart
is
that
is
thus
poore
in
fpirit,
how
it
Both
behave
it felfe,
or what are
the
f
eYerall
workings
of
fuch
a heart
that
is
thus
poore
in
fpirit.
Thirdly,
Why
it
is
that
fuch
a
heart
is fo
bleffed
in
the
ePeeme.
of
Jefus Chrifl.
But
now wherein
the
ble
ednefs
confifis ,
That
efpecially
will appeare
in
the
promife
;
For their's
is
the
kjns-dome
of
Heaven.
Ile
but
briefely open
a
little
the
firfl
unto
you
;
what
the
fpirituall poverty
is
that
fuck, a
foule
doth
fee and
is fenci-
1
'ole
of.
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