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I-Íozv
the
poere
in
irit
is
Bleffed.
amiffe
in
the Family,
and
it
puts
thee quite
out of frame
a-
gaine
ó
what
is
this
foule
that
was
with
God,
and in;oy-
rd
fuch
Communion
with
God
but
itmay
be
an
hoúre agoe;
and
yet
at every
little
thing
in
the
Family
is
prefently out
of
-frame;
what
a
poore
fpirit
is
this
;
Even
the
Saints
are very
-poore, for
they
are quickly
put
out of
frame
,
and
unTetled
by
small
temptations.
Seven:hly
,
Poore they
are
farther.;
For
they
have
but
lit-
tle
ability
to
helpe others
;
There
are very few
Godly
people
have
ability
to
no
any
more but even to keepe life
and foule
together,
(as
we
ufe
to fay) it's
even
as
much
as
ever
they
can
do to
live and
to
hold
their
own, to
maintain
their
peace
with
God;But to
be
able
to
be ufefull
ro
others among whom
they
live,
that
very
few
are,
What
a.deale of doe
have many
Godly
people
to
live themfelves,
tomaintaine
what once
they
have
had, they
are
ever
and
anon
afraid
that
they (hall
one
day even perish
As
poore people
that
have even
but from
'
:hand
to mouth, they
thinke,
why
though I
can
get
bread
now,
yet
I
know
not where
I
(hail have
it
to morrow,or
next
week:
furely we (hall come
to
:beggery.one day
;
Godly people
live
at
fuch
a
poore
rate
forthe
molt
part,
as
they
are
little
ufefull
unto others,
and have much
adoe
to provide
for
themfelves:
Now here
you fee
the poverty of Spirit,
Firfl,
what our
fpirituall poverty
is
naturally,
that hath
been opened the
lafl
time
:
And
now even what
the fpirituall
poverty
ofthe
Saints
is.
But
you will
fay,
This
loth
not
make
them bleffed that
they are
thus
poore
;
this
is
part
of
their
mifery.
That's
true
It's
part of their
mifery
that
they
are poore
:
But
yet
bleffed are
they that
are
throughly apprehenfive
and
fencible of
this fpirituall
poverty of theirs, that
come
to
know
this
their
poverty,and
come
to
be throughly
affe
&ed
with this
their
poverty;
they are
bleffed
:
There
be few
in
the world
who come
to
underftand what
their poverty
is
;
where's
the
man
or woman
that knows the poverty
that
we
are In
by
na-
ture
?
And
then
for
poverty in refpeet of
weakneffe
of Grace
otherwife,, this
is
takenlittle
notice
of
:
But
now bleffed
are