which renders them keyed. 47 day without feeking of God in prayer, God hear's but little of them, they are growne high and rich ; As a company of the wantons of our age,that fcorne and contemne duty,ancf thinke that they are growne fo rich, and have fo much comfort, and fo much A ffurance and Grace, that they have no fuch need as others have ; Well, but when they are fo flush and high, bleffed are the poore, thole that are needy,and fee themfelves thus : fo as to be begging at the Throne of Grace, thofe that God heares much from at his Throne of Grace, thefe are the bleffed ones. Fif[hly, The poore, they are the admirers of Free Grace, and the great extollers of Free Grace ; what ever they have they looke upon it as Free Grace, and over -looke themfelves, over-looke their duties when they have done ; they are as much in duties as any, but when they have done they over- Tooke all, they Rand not uron any thing, but it is Free Grace onely that's admired by them ; Certainly thefe are the ho nourers of Free Grace. And fróm hence in the firth place, The poore in fpirit, this is his behaviour, he is emptyed of ,himfelfe, whatfoever he hatpin himfelfe, or whatfoever he do.h, he dares not ref+ up- on it, not for his fpirituall and eternall good, but is delivered as it Were from himfelfe, looking ni on himfelfe as undone, utterly Undone in refpe& of what he is, of what he "path, .,or a what' he can doe. One that is emptyed( I fay) of himfelfe:, and of every creature, and is in a preparation now for to truft onely In the Grace that is without him, In the Grace of God th it is tendered In the Gofpel : he dares not lay the weight of Lis stern ll eflate upon any chin .that is In,,himfelfe , or what conies from himfelfe , but meerely upon the Grace of .God revealed in Chrift in the Gofpel : This is the poore fpirited man that is thus.bleffed. One that Commits himfelfe to God, and tru(ts in God ; fo doe the poore. Thus you have It in the io Pfd. 14. The ,poore cornmitteth himfelfe unto thee ; he is- , emptyed of himfelfe., and.Commits himfelfe to God ; Com- mits his foule to him, and all his wayes ; he dares not trait to his own wifdome for the guiding of him , not in any of his af- faires,
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