cast out, and his Goods fpoiled, he hath lived in great Want and Neceffity: And therefore is a most constant and importunate Beggar at the Throne of Grace for Supply and makes out to the Fulness and All-fufficiency of Jefus Chrift, as hist only Relief; and whatfoever he finds defective in himself, fetcheth it Homel by an appropriating Faith from him. This Poverty of Spirit is a most excel-l lent Grace, that puts the Crown wholly upon God's Mercy; afcribing nothing to it felf, but its own Failings; and is such a fweet, ingenuous, and obliging Grace, that it wins Favour in the Sight of God, and he will certainly crown it at the laft with Glory. This, above all others, hath learnt the true Art of ingratiating it felf with God; while thofe who are fpiritually proud, and haughty, and felfconfident, are like your great Mountains, high, but barren, they are fwollen up with their own Arrogance, but are ufually empty of every Thing but only Noife and Tumour.

Thirdly, A mourning Frame of Spirit is another Difpofition, that accompanies Salvation. Matth. 5. 4. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. An holy Mourning for our own Sins, and for the Sins of others.

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ift. For our own Sins. And this is one great Part of Repentance, without which no Remiffion can be granted, and therefore no Salvation obtain'd. It is true, Repentance is no Satisfaction to the Juftice of God 15 we cannot weep our felves out of Debt. Were' our Heads Fountains of Tears, and could rour Eyes pour out Rivers of Water, yet all thefe not wash away the Guilt or Stain of any the leaft Sin that ever we com mitted. But yet without this, the Satisfaction that Chrift Jefus hath made can never be applied to us. For his Blood comes flowing to us only upon a Stream of our own Tears: And that Soul that can thus melt down before the Lord in an holy, ingenuous Mourning, and godly Sorrow, may with comfortable Evidence conclude, That as he hath bathed himself in his own Tears, fo God hath sprinkled him with the Blood of Chrift, which alone can take away Sin. And,

2dly. A Spirit of Mourning for the Sins of others, the Sins of the Times and Places in which we live. For as our own Sins lie upon us 'till we humble our Souls' before God fo the Guilt of other: Mens ; Sins will likewife be imputed unto us, and the Wrath which is due to them may fall upon us, unless we lament them before

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God, and testify by our Sorrow for them, that we gave not our Confent to them. This is another gracious Impreffion that accompany Salvation.

Fourthly, Another is a meek and a patient Spirit: Matth. 55. Bleffed are the Meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. Where the Promife I fuppofe doth not only refer to Temporal Bleffings, tho' they only are express'd, but is to be carried higher, unto the heavenly Inheritance. Now this Meekness is a Fruit of holy Mourning. He that deeply humbles himself for his Sins before God, will not be much exasperated by the Offences of others against him. If God hath forgiven him Ten Thousand Talents, he will not think it any great. Matter to forgive his Brother a few Pence. Nothing makes a Man fo untractable and rugged, as Sin that lies upon the Confcience unrepented; and therefore unpardoned: And therefore we find that David was never fo cruel, as when he had for fome Time lain under the Guilt of his two foul Sins. Then he puts the Ammonites under Saws, and Harrows, and Axes of Iron, and makes them pass through the Brick-kilns. A fearful and fad Havock! Some he burnt, and fome he fawed, and fome he tare in Pieces, which was a strange Execution,

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and poffibly more than became him to inflict. But afterward, when he had truly repented, and deeply humbled himself for his Sins, though he had a far greater Provocation, yet he meekly paffeth it by: And when Shimei, in the Madness and Distraction of his Rage, pelts him with Stones and Curfes together, Repentance had fo humbled and tamed his Spirit, that all we now hear from him, is, Let him curfe; for God hath faid unto him, curfe David. It is a moft beautiful and excellent Grace, when we can bear Affronts and Injuries petulantly done against us, without any great Disturbance and Emotion. And this Grace God hath promised to crown with Salvation, Pfal 149. 4. The Meek will he beautify with Sal

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Fifthly, An holy Hungring and Thirsting after Grace; Matth. 5. 6. Bleffed are they that do hunger and thirst after Righteoufness, for they fhall be filled: When we do earnestly defire both the Righteousness of Christ's Merits to justify us, and the Righteousness of his Spirit to fanctify us. Which vehement Appetite will arife in us, if we have but a deep and due Senfe of our Want of Chrift, and our Want of Grace. And certainly the infinite Mercy of God will not fuffer him to re

fufe the Breathings of an Heart that thus amorously pants after him; but he will, according to his Promife, fill the Hungry with good Things, when as for the Rich, and the full, thofe that are full of Self and fulf of Pride, he will fend them empty away. Again,

Sixthly, A merciful Frame of Spirit, Verfe 7 Bleffed are the Merciful, for they fhall obtain Mercy: When we are merciful both to the Souls and Bodies of others, fhewing our prone and ready Charity both in inftructing the one, and relieving and fupplying the other. Again,

Seventhly, An holy Awe and Dread of God, is another Grace that accompanies Salvation. This poffibly is look'd upon by fome now a-days as a mean Grace, unworthy of that near Relation we stand in to God, and that Freedom we may use towards him. But yet the Scripture doth lay fo much Emphafis upon this, that it often fets forth the whole Work of Grace upon the Soul by fearing of God.

Eighthly, So alfo Love to God, Love to his People, Love to his Ways and Ordinances, and whatsoever bears the Stamp of his Holiness printed upon it. Thefe, and many more, are fuch holy Impreffions upon the Heart, that wherefoever