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What
Poverty
of fprrú
is..
37
Fifthly,
But
fuppofe
a
man
hash:
no
friend to
hei:pe
him
and
he
is
not able
to
work,
yet
if
he bath
any
excellency at
all
in
him, there
is
fome hope
that tome
will
regard
him for
the
worth that
is
in him
,
perhaps he
is a
man
of excellent
parts,.
though through weaknefre he
is
able to
doe
little
now
:
this
is
our
ípirituall poverty
;
We
are thus
miferable, we
have no
friends, we
can
do nothing,
and
then
we
have no
worth
at
alt
in
us
whereby God
fhould have
any
refpecf
to
us; whereby
his Angels
should
have
refpec`f
to
us
;
if
they
could doe
us
good
;
we
are
naturally worthleffe
creatures,we
Rill
aggravate
our poverty.
Sixthly,
If
a
man
were
fo
poore,
as
that
he should
not be
able
to doe fomething
now,
yet
if
it
can
be
conceìv'd that
hereafter
he
right
doe foniething; there were hope, but I
ana
fo
in
debt, that
as
foone
as
I
can
get
any
thing my
creditors
may
come
upon
me
andtake
away all
this is our fpirituall,
poverty
;
Suppofe
God
should
put
abilities in
us
to
enable us,.
to
doe fomething
that
is
good,
why, all
that
we
are able
to
do
cannot'fatisfie for what
is
paft,if
we were able
to
obey now
the
.
law of
God
perfë
&ly,what
becomes of
all
the old arrears;The.
juflice
ofGod
will have fatisfa
tion,
God
is
relayed
that
no
foule
lhall ever be accepted but
his
infinite
Juftice
thall
be.
fatisfied, Now
the
foule fees
it
felfe
poore
indeed,
as
it
is
in
it
felfe,
when
it
fees
that the debt mutt
be paid
to
every
far
thing,if
a man
now
hath
broke
and
loft
his
eftate,yet he
thins
s4
he
may agree
with
his
creditors
and
get
up again, and
fo is
not
fo
miferably
poore
:
But
if
he
knowes
this, that certainly
the
debt
muff
be
paid,now and
there
will be no compounding
with
his creditors,
now he
will
conclude,
his
life
is
like
to
be poor
indeed
:
This
doth
thofe
that are fpiritually poor
fee
in
than-
felves, they
are in
debt,
and all
that
they
can
do
can
never be
able
to
fattsfie for what
is
part.
Seventhly,
fuppofe
a
manor
woman
fhould:
receive forre-
thing to help them
for the
prefent;
yet
they mutt live
upon
conttnuall alines, this
is
poverty,
fo a
foule
that
is
fpiritually
poor,it
fees
it
mutt live
in
a
continual
dependance,that though
God
do
:h
give me fame power
to
acf,yet
there
mull be
a
new'
influence