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What
Porcrty
of
fpirit
3S
In
refpee&
of
its fpirituall
efiate,
fuch
a
foule
apprehends
it
felt
as a
very poore creature,
Firfl,
it
fees
that
is is
depriv'd,
as
it
is
in
it
felfe of
all
true
fpirituall good
that fhould doe
it
good
in
reference
ro
god,
and
in
reference'to
its
own
happinefs;
This it
is
that it
fees
cleerely
;
As
a
poore
man fees himfelfe
poore what's
that,
that
is,
I
want
all
thofe outward
comforts
that
o_hers
have,
I
am
deflitute of
fuch
and
fuch
comfortable
things,ye
neceffa-
ry things that others have
:
fo one
that's
poor in
fpirit
fees his
condition
robe
thus,
O Lord,
though
indeed at lirfl
when
thou
didfi
make man, thou
didfi
make
him
rich, thou
puttefi
him
into paradife,
and made&
him according
to
rhino own
I-
m:age, by
which
he
was
the
King and
the great heir
of
all
the
world, butLord
now
I
ana
depriv'd of
all
good whatfoever,
of
all fpirituall
good, depriv'd of thine Image,
I
have
nothing
of
thine Image
now in
me
that
is
fpirituall, not
any
part
of
fpi-
rituall
life
whereby
I
lhould
come
to
have union
with
thee,
or
communion with
thee,that
in
any way
may,worke in
order
TO,
eternal!
life,
I
ana
wholly
defiitute
of every good thing
that
rüaymake the
any way
acceptable
to God
now
here
s
a
poor
man, when
I
can fee
it,
and be convinc'd
of
this that
what
ever
good thing
that
fhould
makeme
acceptable
to
God,
that
am
I
wholly
deprived
of,
I
have
not
one
whit of it
;
I
have
it
may
be: an
eflate in
the world,
and outward,
comforts in my family,
I"
but
what
have
I
in
reference
tò God
?
how
are things with
nie
in
reference,ro the
in:`
nice
glorious firfi being
of
all
things:
wily,
as
I
am
in
my,
felf
naturally,
I
am
depriv'd of
all,
never
Was
there
a,
nun
fo
poor, that had not a
.ragg
to
cover,
hina;
as
I
amp
òór
in
regardrof
my
fl:
iritt
all
condition
:
o
for man
that
bath the
riches
of
the
world, yet ro
fee himfelfe
a
mifera-
ble poor
undone man, this
is
not ordinary, and therefore in-
deed
you ill
all
find,that
Chrit} in
the 6 of
Luke,
doth
oppofe
that
poor
here, to
the
rich
of the world,
that
is, becaufe
there
are
fo
few
of
the
rich
ofthe world, that
can
be
brought to
be
convinc'd
of
this, their fpirituall poverty,
Apoore
man you know,
is
put
upon
many
firaights
that o-
thers are not
put
upon,
and many
miferies
a
poor
man
cloth
F
a
endure,