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where
the poverty
of
the Saints
confïfis.
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companions come and
call him
to
an
Alehoufe or
Taverne,
lie
cannot
refill
is
:
For
a
man
not
to
be able
to
{land
againfi
a
temptation, but to
be
led
by
every poore
t,
mptation
like
a
foole
to
his own
deflruaion,
here's
a
bate
poore fpirired
man
:
a
man
that
bath
no
excellency, no naturali excellency
of fpirit
in
him;
and
yet
how ordinary
is
this in thofe
that
looke
fult
highly
;
they
are men
of
poore and mean fpirits,
-
----
--
This
poverty
of fpirir that
is
in many,
it's
a
curie of
God
that
is
upon
them,
and
it's
a
heavy
curie
when
fuch
men
are
in
pub
lick place, they
are caufes of
hindring
a
great deale
of good,
and doing
a
great deale of mifchiefe
;
it's
a
miferable curfe
either
upon
hingdomes orcountryes,
when
the Lord
by his
providence that!
fo
order things, that men that
have no
excel-
lency of
fpirit
in
them, but are
pore
bate
fpirited
men should
fit
at the
Herne and
have no power
to
manage things
;
),this,
where ever
it
is,
is
a
grevious afliicîion,and
therefore
we
have
cuufe
to
pray,
that
thofe
that are
in
place of
power that they
should
have fpirits futable
to
the
places wherein
they are; not
men of
for
did
and
lowfpirits
:
Well,thefe
are
not the poore
fpirits that
are
here
bleffed.
Who then?
I
the
Tall
day
(hewed
yo
three
or four
fe-
verall
poor fpirited
men
that
are
bided
:
but
to
let
that
paffe,
and
to proceed
to
that.
that furtherremaines, and that
indeed
is of great concernment,
and is
more
clofe
to
the words. The
poverty
of
the
Saints,
even
godly men;
though
they
have
grace
in
them,yet
1h11
they
are fpiritually poor
:
Now
this
poore
in fpirit
is,one
that
doch
apprehend,
and
is
fenfible
of
his
fpiri-
tuall poverty
;
together
with feverall
other
things
that
livere
mentioned before. But
now.
I
fay, Suppofe
God
bath
given
grace,
vet
fl.ill
there
is a
great deale of poverty.
As
in
the
firil
place, That grace thou
haft
,it hath need
of
comtinuall
fupply
:
There's
no chriflian
can
live
upon
the
grace he bath without new fupply,
it
is
not
with
-a chriflian
now,
as
it
was
with
Adam, to
live
upon
the
flock
that
was
gi
ven
him,
and
fo
able
to
a
by
it
now,
God
will iaar.trufl
thee
with
the
flock
of grace,
it
is
not
in
thy
hand,
but
in
the
hand
of Chrifl,
and
tats
is
the condition
of the
firengefi
godly..
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