38 what Poverty of fpirit is. influence of his grace ro helpe me to make ufe of what I have : that's a pock creature indeed that hash nothing of it idle, and if any thing be given him knowes not how to make ufe Of it without helpe of another, fo cloth the foule fee it felfe in . inch a condition, that whatiOever God fbould bellow upon me, I know not how to make ufe of it,without new fupply of grace, and that continued tome evevy moment. Nov if we put there feavenparticulars together,wethaif fee that here's a poor man indeed Firff, .I am deffitute of all fpiritu:all good, ._ Z bave wofull fpirirualmiferies uponme --And I am not able to worke at all, I have no friend, and I have no worthto commend me to another and I am in debt, and if any thing be given me, I muff have new fupplyes for ufing it and for continuing of it ; ô what a poor creature am I then . Now for a man to lee this, and to be made fenfible of ir, here's a man or woman that is poor in .Spirit : But now this is not ail. But in the next place, there muff be that behaviour in a man that is fptable to this, to make him poor in fpirit : But of that we 1laal1 fpeake further afterwards. Sermc,n
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