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SERMON
III.
OR.
Defcription
of
a
poore
fpirited
man.
M
A
T
ü.
5,
3.
Bleffed
are the
poore
in
fpirit,
&c
Ivers
things
have
been
fpokenby way
of Preface
to
this
excellent
Sermon
of Chrift
:
you have
heard
the
fcope
of
ir,
Firft to (hew
into
the.
world wherein
true
bleffednefs
doh
canal
1
That that men are
fo
much
deceived
in
,
that
there
is fo
great
aamiflake
about
;
And
there's
nothing more
contrary unto bleifednefs in
the
worlds
efteeme, then.what
Chrift
pronounces
to
be bleffed
:
Bleífednefs
is
the
Injoyment
of the
la
+
end
, and
fo
of
the
chiefe
good.
that
the
rational!`
creature
is capable
of
;
For
it's
proper to the
rational!
crea-
ture,
--
BIeWJ'ed
are the
poore
in
ff'irit.
There
are men of
poore
bafe
fpirits.that are farre from
bleffedneífe
;
As
Firí
+,
Such
men
as
have
their
defignes
,
ends,
and aymes
only in money,
and bafe and
unworthy
things
,
that
mind
no higher
things
but
to eat
and
drink,
and
to
have
pleafure
to
the flelh
;
But
as
for
God,
and
Chrift,
and:Heaven,
and
Erer
nity, the Gofpel,
and
the Word;
they are notions
to
them
;
But give them money,
and
meat, and drinke, and
in
that they
account thernfelves¡happy
;
Why here's
a
poore fordid bafe
fpirited
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