slriirái'atitfi,ic 4z14aÆ03c4aafisÿlEtñz&it au` oSe;3tAu* LlRa°t,$c1)11Za.}i,4t ) r J 2 a ..aSr g6'°ivd' #rti s`ETá +rdcVioôtirtrd'rg á4"s riF'i'riri` rárìi«e rjtiY, SERMON III. OR. Defcription of a poore fpirited man. M A T H. g, 3, Eleffed are the poore in fpirit, &c. Ivers things have been fpokenby way of Preface to this excellent Sermon of Chrift : you have heard the fcope of it,., Firíf to Phew unto ch.; world wherein true bleffednefs doch con! íf That that men are fo much deceived in , that there is fo great amitlake about ; And there's nothing more contrary unto bleifednefs in the worlds ef}eeme, then what Chrift pronounces to be bleffed : Bleffednefs is the In }oy-ment of the lai: end , and fo of the chiefe good that the rational!` creature is capable of ; For it's proper to the rational' crea- ture, Blef7"ed are the poorè in fpirit. There are men of poore bafe fpirits.that are farre from bleffedneffe ; As Firft , Such men as have their defignes , ends,. and aymes only in money, and bafe and unworthy things , that mind no higher things but to eat and drink, and to have pleafure to the fleth ; But as for God, and Chrifi, andlHeaven, and Eter- nity, the Gofpel, and the Word; they are notions to them But give them money, and meat, and drinke, and in that they account thenifelvesihappy Why here's a poore fordid bate fpirited.
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