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Where
the Poverty
of
the Saints
confìfis,
man
inthe
world,
he
muff go
daily & continually
to
Chrifl
to
fetch
new fupply, or
he-
can
not
fubfift. -_-
The
poor
condition
that
we
are
.
now
ifr,in
refpeck
of
what
Adam
was
in,may
be
fet
out
in
this
fitfilit
le.
-
A
man
that
is
fet
up
to
trade
with
a
flock, a'pd'to
is
able
to
goe
on
in his
Trade,
and
bath skill
in
it,
his
father lets him
goe on
till
filch
time
as
he
proves an ill
husband, and breakes,
and loofes
all
and runs
into
debt
'
:
yet
his
father
afterwards
takes pity
on
him, will
fet
him up againe,
but
fo
as
he
Will
not trufl
him
With
the
flock
any
more,
he will
give
the
flock into
fore
trufly friends hand,
and his ton
flail
goe every
day
to
give
an
account
to
his
friend
;
and
to
fetch
money from him,
and
to
return:.
to
him
every day, becaufe his
father
Will-nOt
trnfl
him
any
more
:
This
is
iufl our cóndition,
In
Adam
We
did receive
a
flock
of grace,&
God
inabled
us
to
goe
on
and
trade,with it for
himfelfe,
but
all
mankind
fell
in
him, we
turn'd
bankrupts, we loll
that
flock, now
the Lord
is
pleated to
fet
up again
thole
that
he
hath
chofen fot
himfelfe,
to
trade
againe
in
a way
of
godlin fie
;
but
fo, as
God
will
not truflIns
flock
in
their hands
;
the.
flock
therefore
of
Gods
grace, it
is
now in
Chrifl,
in
our
head,
and we
muff have
fup-
ply
dayly from
him
:
And
this
is
the
Poore condition
that
we
are
rn
;
This
f
irituall poverty even of the
Saints.
Secondly,
The
poverty
Of
the
Saints confifls in
this
:
The
graces
that they
have are
bits
f
aalt'r
Godly
men and women
though
they
have
grace
beflhWed upon
them,
yet'
for
the moll
part
it
is
to
finall;
as
they can
fcarce know
whether
-they
have
grace
or
not
(I
fay
for
the moll
parr
it
is fo
:)
Now
that's
a
poore condition, thou
art
a
very poor
creature,
for
'though
thou
hafl
"grace,
yet
iris
fo
little
as you
cannot
'tell
Whether
you
have
any
or no
i
Though
God
hath given
the
grace,
yet
how
often art
thou
at a
(land in
thy thoughts
about 'thy' grace,
whether there be
any or
no in thy
heart, thy
grace
is
like
a
lit-
tle
fpark
wrapt
up
in
a
heape
of embers,
fo
that the
maid is
;aking
1
good while
before ate-can.fee
it':
ó
how
long
art
thou
a raking many
tithes
in
thy
'he'art,
in
the
examination
Of
thy
heart,
before thou caníl
fee one fparke
of
grace,
fo
as
thou
canif fay,
this
is
a
fparke
of
true grace
:furely thou
art but
poor
then.
Thirdly,