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Carrisge
in
tr.
ituall poverty,
&c,
45
are they that
doe apprehend
this
,
and are
fencible
of
it
Therefore that
you may
underhand
who
the
bleifed
one is
that
aril}
fpeakes
of
,
we
null
now
turne
our thoughts
to
Confider of
the
behaviour
of
the
foule
;
or
the
workings
of
the
heart
in
the
fight and in
the fence
of
this
fpiritual
poverty,
which makes
him
to
be thus bleffed. Now for
that there
are
many
particulars
which
I
11ía11
goe over
briefly,
As
in
the
fira
place, A man
that
is
poore
un
fpirir
truly,.
fo
as
to be bleifed,
is
fuch
a
one
as
looks
Upon
himfelfe
as
vild
and meane, whatfoever outward excellency he bath,
yet
I
am
a vild and
Mane
wretched creature
in my
f
lfe,
in
refpecl of
this poverty
of
mine
:
God
herb
given
me indeed
an
effete a-
bove my
Brethren
,
to
live comfortably
in the
world
,
ä
but
what
áni
I
in
refpea
of
my
fpiritual (late
!
I
that
am
richer,.
and have
more
comings
in
then others,
how many
poore fer-
vants
of
God that
live
in
a
meane
Condition outwardly;
yet
do
honour
God
more
in
one
day,
then.
I
doe
in
a
month;
it
may
be
in
a
yeare
;
God
hath
more fervice from
them- in
a
moneth perhaps ,
then
he bath from
me
in
a
year,
or
feven
yeares
;
he
looks
uponhimfelfe
as
mean:. and
vile,
notwith-
flanding
any
outward excellency, whatfoever parts
of nature
that
he bath,
why
yet
he lookes upon himfelfe
as
meane
in
comparifon
of
others
:
ô
this
is
an
excellent thing
indeed,
for
a
man
that
bath
excellent parts,
and
yet
fees
ano_her
to
have
more Grace
:
perhaps
there's
fotne poore
man
or_womap
that
bath more humility,
and
more
Faith,and
more
fwe_tnefle,and
more
favourineffe in
their
Converfation,
and
more holineíie,
and
more
heavenly
mindedp
1e,
now he
looks
upon him-
felfe as meane
in
compariön
of that
other,
though perhaps he
is
learned,
and of
eheeme
in
the world
,
vet
hecau=fe
he
fees
others
to
excel'
in
Grace,
he
lookes
uon
himfelfe
meaner and
lower
then
they
:
why
here's
a
manpoore
in
ftirit
than
is
pro
nounced
bleifed.
Sònne
men
are
proud of
their
vices,
but
the
ponce
infpirit
is
humble
at the
fight of
his
t
iraces
-
Cana
It
hearts are puft up
with
that that fhöuld
snake
them
a
liamed,
but
a
gracious
heart
fees enough
in
his
Graces to
make hire
bumble
;
In
his
love,knowledge,,
Faith
;
In
-that
that
is his
bef
t
parts