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Carriage
in
#irituall
poverty
faires,but
efpecially
for
the guiding
of
him
In the great
affairs
that
Concerne
his
eternal! good.
And
in the
3
Zeph.
t
2ï
the
Scripture
faith
;
That the Lord
would leave
in
the midi! of
them,
an
aiflieled
and
a
poore
people,
and
they iliould
truft
in
the Naine of the Lord.
It
is
the
poore that Commit
them
-
felves
to
God,
and
that
trott
in
the Name
of
the Lord.
Now
blelfed
are
thee
poore, that
is
, fuch
poore
_
as
from
a
fight
of
their
own
emptyneffe, vileneife, wickednefle
and
inability
to
helpe themfelves, fluff
give
up
thenifelves
to the Grace
of
Cod
revealed
in
the Gofpel,
and
Commit
thenafelves and all
their
wayes
to
be
guided
by
God,
and are willing
to live up-
on Aimes for
his
prefent
and for his
eternal!
efface.
It
is
in
the nature
of
man
ever
to be
Peeking
to
have fame
Righteouf-
neffe
of
his ovine
;
And that's the
Realon
that
men
can have
no
Comfort
;
Thofe
that
have
their
Conlciences awakened,
can have no
Comfort
till
they be
able
to doe
thus and
thus,
and
be
able
to
performe duties
after
fuch
a
manner,
and
over-
come Corruptions thus
and thus
:
Thou wilt not come
as
it
were,
a
meere
beggar
to
God,
as
one
that
hath
nothing, but
thou wouldel!
faine
bring fomething
to God
;
But the
Lord
will have
thee
come
as a
meere
beggar,
as
one.
that
hath
no=
thing
at
all
,
and
to lie
down:. fiat
beforehinr,
ftript
of
.all,
even
of
thy
raggs
;
For
you know
many
poore people
,
they
are
proud
of their
very
raggs
And
fo
it
is
with
the hearts
of
Men,
though they
have
nothing
but
their
civil!
RighteouC
nef
e, yet that
they
will
be proud
of
;
Now the Lord
:will
ffrip
thee of
all, and make
thee
come naked
before
him,
and
be
willing
to
live
upon
Aimes
for
eternity
;
Now
it's
hard for
a
man
to
live
uponAlmes
for
a
little
time
,
but
to
live
upon
Alines
all
the dayes
of
ones
life
,
is
harder
:
but
now
to
live
upon Aimes for
eternity;
and
yet
this poore
fpirit
is filch an
one,
as is
fo
fencible of
his own
poverty,as
can
Commit
it
felfe
to God
in
filch a
way,
as
to be
Content
to
live upon Aimes,
even for
Eternity;
and bleffed are
thefe
poore.
Seventhly,
A poore fpirited
man
is
one
that
is. willing
that
God
fbotild
choofe his
condition
:
We
ufe
to
fay
that
beggars
muff be no choofers,
but
now
I
am
(peaking
of
one whole
fpirit
is