48 Carriage in #irituall poverty faires,but efpecialIy for the guiding of him In the great affairs that Concerne his eternall good. And iii the 3 Zeph. t zï the Scripture faith ; That the Lord would leave in the midfl of them, an ai Noted and a poore people, and they should trufl in the Naine of the Lord. It is the poore that Commit them - feives to God, and that truti ni the Name of the Lord. Now bleffed are thee poore, that is , fuch poore as from a fight of their own emptynefle, vilenei e, wickednefle and inability to helpe themfèlves, shall give up themfelves to `the Grace of Cod revealed in the Gofpel, and Commit themfelves and all their wayes to be guided by God, and are willing to live up- on Almes for his prefent and for his eternall eflate. Jr is in the nature of man ever to be Peeking to have force Righteouf- nef e of his ovine ; And that's the Realon that men can have no Comfort ; Thofe that have their Conlci,nces awakened, can have no Comfort till they be able to doe thus and thus, and be able to performe duties after fuch a manner, and over- come Corruptions thus and thus : Thou wilt_not come as it were, a meere beggar to God , as one that bath nothing, but thou wouldefl faine bring fomething to God ; But the Lord will have thee come as a meere beggar, as one. that lath no= thing at all, and to lie downe flat before.hini, fiript of all, even of thy raggs ; For you know many poore _people , they are proud of their very raggs : And fo it is with the hearts of Men, though they have nothing but their civill Righteoul nefie, yet that they will be proud of ; Now the Lord will flrip thee of all, and make thee come naked before him, and be willing to live upon, Almes for eternity ; Now it's hard for a man to live upon Almes for a little time , but to live upon Almes all the dayes of ones life , is harder : but now to live upon Almes for eternity; and yet this poore fpirit is fuch an one, as is fry fencible of his own poverty,as can Commit it felfe to God in fuch a way,, as to be Content to live upon Almes, even for Eternity; and bleffed are thefe poore. Sevenrhly, A poore fpirited man is one that isrvilling that God fhouild choofe his condition : We ufe to fay that beg gars mull be no choofers, but now I am fpeaking of one whole fpirit as
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