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What Poverty
of
f
firrt
ì.r,
endure,
that others
doe nor,
and fo
a
fecond thing
in
this
fpiri
tua11'poverty,
is, for
the'íòule to
apprehend
and
iènfibie
of
thofe fptrttuall evilis
that
are upon
it
:.
As
I
doe
not
only
want
the
.Image
of
Cod,
and
fpi:ituall life,
but
I
have
that that
is
contrary
:
á
the mifery
that
is
uponme
in
my
mind,
the dark-
metre
of that
;
The
crOireneffe
of
my will and
heart
to
God,
.
thofe
many
corruptions that
are in my foule
; oh
the
vermine
that creeps
about me continually
:
there
is
no mifery
that
poor
people do endure
;
but
thofe
that
are
fpiricually
poore, do fez
that
mifery
upon
theirCelves
,
as
they
are in
them
Elves.
And then
a
third
thing
that
makes one poor
is
this,
fuppofè
I
have many
miferies upon me yet
if
I am
able
to.
work
.for
my
felfe, I cant be
extremely
poore,but
when the
man
hath many
miferies upon him,
and
is
not
able
to
work for his
livelihood
then
is he
poor
indeed,
fo
it
is,thoughwe
have loft
the
Image.
ofGod,.
yet
if
we
were
able
to
do
any
thing
to
help
our felves,,
we were not
fo
poore, but
now, when
a
man
fees himfelfe thus
miferable,
and cart
do nothing for
hirrfelfe to
get
any
good for
the
inrichiug
ofhis
foul, he
is
poor;
A
man or
woman
that
bath,
loft all,and then
falls
lame,fo
that
they
cannot
wo:k,nor do
any
thing for
the
jr
maintainance, this
now is
a
poor
man or woman,,
when
their
labour
is
loft
as
well
as
their
eflate., fo now
when
vve
have
fatal'
and are
lame, and can
doe
nothing
that
may
help
us
in
any
1pirituall
good,
then
muff`
we
needs
be poore.
indeed.
Fourthly,But
if I
be
not
able
to
l
tbouriyet
if I
have
friends
that
may
helpe
me,
I
am
not
miferably
poo:
e
thus
it
is
in
re-
gard
Of
our fpirttual eftate,
what
friend hail
thou
to
relieve,
or
hielp
thee,
is
tt Cod
'or
Chril
that
íhould
help
thee
?
Why?
God
heis
a
flranger,
Chrifl
thou
haft
no
intereft in,
as
thou
art
in
thy felfe, thou
muff
not looke
upon
Codas
he
is
in
him-
felfe,
thou
art
an
enemy to
Cod
,
for fo
the
Scripture faith,
we are
enemies- to
God,
andirangerrs
to
the
covenant
of grace,
and thou
art
a
poore
creature
indeed that
haft
no
whither to
go
for
thy helpe
;
All the Angels
in
heaven cannot help
thee,
all
the men
in
the world
cannot help
thee
in this thypoor
co.ndi-
tki@nin
which
thou art:,
Fifrhlÿ,