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which renders
them
bleff
èd.
day without reeking
of
God
in
prayer,
God
hear's but
little
of
them, they
are growne high and rich
;
As
a
company
of
the
%v'antons
of
our
age,that
fco:ne
and
contemne duty,and thinke
that they are growne
fo
rich,
and have
fo
much
comfort,
and
fo
much Affurance and
Grace,
that they
have no fuch
need
as
others
have
;
Well,
but
when
they are
fo
flush
and high,
bleiied
are
the
poore,
thole
that are needy,and
fee
themfelves
thus
:
fo
as
to be
begging at
the Throne of Grace, thole that
God
heares much from at his
Throne of
Grace, thefe
are
the
bleffed
ones.
Fif[hly
,
The poore, they
are
the admirers
of
Free
Grace,
and
the great extollers of
Free Grace
;
what ever they have
they
looke upon
it
as
Free
Grace,
and over
-
looke
themfelves,
over-locke
their duties
when
they
have
done
;
they are
as
much in
duties
as
any,
but
when
they
have
done they
over
looke all,
they
Rand
not
upon
any
thing, but
it
is
Free Grace
onely
that's admired
by
teem
;
Certainly thefe
are
the
ho
nourers of
Free
Grace.
And
from hence
in
the
fixth
}lace,
The poore in
ffiri
, this
is
his
behaviour,
he
is
emptyed
of himfelfe, whatsoever
he
Lath' in
himfelfe,
or whatfoever
hello
h, he dares
not
ref}
up-
on
it,
not
for his fpirituall and
eternall good, but
is
delivered
as
it
were from himfelfe, looking upon himfelfe' as.wadane,
utterly
Undone
in refpe& of what
he
is, of what he
bath,
-.or
of
what
he
can
doe.
One
that
is
emptyed
(I
fay)
of himfelfe,
and
of
every
creature,
and
is
in
a
preparation
now for
to
fruit
onely
In the
Grace that
is
without
him,.
In the
Grace
of
God
this
is
tendered In the Gofpel
:
he dares not
lay
the
weight of
Lis
eternnll
efface
upon any
ihing:that
is In,himfelfe
,
or
what
comes from
himfelfe
,
but
meerely upon the
Grace of
God
revealed
in
Chrif}
in the Gofpel
:
This
is
the
poore
fpirìted
man
that
is
thusblef
ed. One that
Commits
himfelfe.to
God,
and
truí
}s
in
Cod
,;
fo
doe
the poore.
Thus
you have
It
in
the
a
o
Pfa
.
14.
The
,poore
committeth
'himfelfe unto thee
;
he is-
,
emptyed of
himfelfe, and.Commirs himfelfe
to God
;
Com-
mits
his foule
to him,
and
all
his wayes
;
he dares not
traft
to
his
own wifdome for
the guiding of him
,
not
in
any
of
his
af-
faires,
47.