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which re
¡der.~
thew
Bleffed,
protnife
is
revealed he trembles
for fear
that he
i3.ould
not
be-
long to him
:
ànd
the
divine
lucre
that
he fees in
the word
to
be
ío much above
him,
caufes his
heart
to
feare
and
tremble
before the
Lord
;
this
is
a
poor fpirited
min
;
It's
oppofìte
to
that boldneiïe of
ipirit
that
is
inman,which
is
from hence,chat
he thinks he bath something
to
bear him
out:Rut
now one
that
is
poor in
fpirit
lookes upon noshing
in himfelfe
that
can
bear
him out againa
any
thing
that
is
in
the
word:No,
it's
the word
that
muff
prevaile, whatsoever becomes ofme
either
for
my
prefent
or
eternali
efiate:.It's
the word that
mua
prevaile,and
therefore
he gives
an
awfull
reverentiall refpe& to the
word
when he
heares
ir.
Eleventhly, One that
is
poore in fpirit,
is fuch
an
one
that
bath
a
melting heart
likewile
at
the word. A
little
thing
in
Gods
word arikes hini pretZntly
and will caufe
his
heart to
melt
;
As
you (hail fee
men and women
that
are truly poor
in-
deed
(not
your
ordinaryVagrants
and
Rogues
that
will make
themfelves
fo
in
idleneiie) but thofe that
are
truly
poore,
you
fliall finde
if
you
doe
but
fpeake to them,
a
melting fpirit pre
-
fently
in
them;
any thing
you
fay
almoa,will
make
their hearts
to melt
within them
;
to one
that
is
poore
in
fpirit,
bath
a
mel-
ting
fpirit at
the
word,a
little
thing from
God
works upon
him,
and he
doth
not hand
out againa the word
fo as
others
doe,he
hath
not a
heart to
give
the
word
a
rebound
fo as
others have,
but
when
the
word
comes,there's
a
yeelding of
ipirit
unto
the
word
:
{
Now
all
thofe
put together
that-have
been named,
will;plainly
demonarate,
who
that
man or woman
is
that
is
pronounced
thus
bleifed here
by our Saviour
Chria.
Now if
you
would
aske and
demand
why
it
is
that
God
bath
fuch
a
refpe& and
regard
to
fuch
as
are
thus poore
in
fpi-
.rit,'onely
a
word
or
two.
The
great
reáfon
why
the
Lord
bath loch
regard unto
fuch,
it
is becaufe this
difpofition
doth batí larve
the
great
defigne
that
God
bath
of
glorifying himfelfe in the world, namely,
the
lifting up
of
his
free-grace
:God
would, have his glory from
the
children of
men; but
what
glor
.
?.
the
l
ftiii
;
up of
free grace,
that's
rhe glory
that Qod
w
o
l}
boye
all
other;
God
ould