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3

8

What Poverty

of

fpirit

in£îuence

of

his

grace to helpe me

to

make

ufe

of

what

I

have

:

that's

a

or

creature

indeed

that

hath

nothing

of

it

felfe,

and

if

any

thing be given

him knowes

not

how

to

make

ufe

of

it

without helpe

of another,

fo

Both

the

foule fee

it

felfe

fuch

a

condition, that

whatever

God

Ihould bellow

upon

me,

I

know not how

to

make ufe

of ir,wìthout

new fupply

of

grace,

and

that continued

tome

eves

moment. Now

if

we

put

there

feaven

particulars

together

we

ilil!

fee

that here's

a

poor

man

indeed

Firi

},

I

am

df+ìtute

of

all

fpirituall good,

I

have wofull

fpiritual miferies

upon

me

And

I

am

not

able

to

worke at

all,

I have

no

friend,

and

I

have

no

worthto

commend me

to

another

and

I am

in

debt,

and

if

any

thing

be given

me,

I

mua

have

new

fupplyes for

uang

it

and

for continuing

of

it

;

ô

what

a

poor

creature

am

I

then

.

Now

for

a

man

to lee this,

and

to

be made feníible

of

ir, here's

a

man or woman

that

is

poor

in .Spirit

:

But

now

this

is

not

áll.

But

in

the next place,

there

muff be

t

that

behaviour in

a

man

that

is

fixable

to this, to

make

him

poor

in

fpirit

:

But

of

that

we ibail

fpeake

further afterwards.

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