zn the World. have greater riches then iGo_i fbould make Sou Kings and ueenes. So that it might be faid, not only for the Generali, Ble ed are the poore , But blelled is this poore man that dwells in this ftreete, 01 :11.1 fi:ch a poor fmoakic hole. The very An- gelis of God may looke uron you as a bleffed creature, if you have but a heart to attend upon the Gofpel, that reveales the way of bleffedneís to you : hlefírd are the poore. I but bleffed are the poore in #irit ; whar every poore, no nor every poverty of fpirit is not bkffed neither : 1 here is a poverty of fpirit that is an evil( , and an accurfed poverty of fpirit ; A man may be a man of a poore fpirit, and of a curt d fpirit, becaufe indeed he is a poore fpirit, --- By that there-. fore I meane this, fuch a man as is of a low, bafe, fordid fpirit,. that bath his fpirit funke downe to low earthly fen tall things, as his higheff and chiefeft good ; he minds no higher good then to ease and drinke, and fatisfie his flefl,, here's a man of a poore fpirit, he is of a low fpirit indeed : But this poore low fpirit is fordid, is bafe and accurfed. You fee many times poore people, they minde thofe meane things that they are exercifed in, as their adequate objet ; You íhall fee fame- times a poore woman be fcraping in a dull -heápe o dunghill for an houre together, now fhe is not miferable becaufe of that, but when that is her adequate ob;eé , that if the can but get fix pence or a (hilûng a day, fhe thinkes her felfe bleffed,. and minds no higher things then this ; You will fay; this is a poore fpirit indeed : why truely fuch -kind of poore fpiri ts have the men of this world, yea the Primces and Great ones of the world ; For many of them they mind only the fatisfj-ing of their flefh, to. eat and drink,and be unclean, as that that is the mofl furable thing to their;fpirits ;why thefe are men of poorer. mow, bale fpirits. TheLord would have his Saints to -be of low fpirits in a godly fence, that is, to be humble ; But the Lordi would have his fervants againe in another fence, to be of high; and lofty fpirits, that is, that nothing.in the world fhould fatif áìe their fpirits for their portion but God himfelfe. Here's a Inman of á high fpirit indeed'; that though indeed he knowes he ip unworthy of the leafá ertim of brew(, yet faith fuch an one, though.
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