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The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit
Publication
- Publisher
- Soli Deo Gloria
- Print status
- Out of stock
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Total pages
- 248 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9798886860047
Reference
- Notes
- The first book Burroughs published, London, 1639 (some sources give 1638). A practical exposition of Numbers 14:24, "Caleb...had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully," with a foreword by William Greenhill.
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Contents
- The Epistle Dedicatory
- To the Christian Reader
- Part 1: A Gracious Spirit Is a Choice and Precious Spirit
- What That Other Spirit Is That a Godly Man Has That Makes Him Different from the World
- Wherein the Excellency of This Gracious Spirit Appears
- A Discovery to the Men of the World That Their Spirits Are Not Like the Spirits of Godly Men
- The Reason Why the Men of the World and the Godly Can Never Agree
- Learn to Have a Right Esteem of Such Precious-Spirited Men
- A Rebuke to Those Who Have Vile Conceits of This Spirit
- It Is No Dishonor to Be Singular
- Seven Notes to Discover That Godly Men's Differing from Other Men Proceeds from the Excellency of Their Spirits
- Bless God for Making This Difference Between Your Spirits and the Vile Spirits of the World
- Communion with Men of Such Excellent Spirits Is a Most Blessed Thing
- Improve This Mercy by Not Walking as Other Men
- An Exhortation to Labor to Get This Excellent Spirit
- Part 2: A Gracious Spirit Follows God Fully
- What It Is for a Man to Follow God Fully
- The Excellency of This Frame of Spirit in Four Things
- Rebuke to Those Whose Spirits Are Not Full in Following After the Lord
- Comfort and Encouragement to Those Who Follow the Lord Fully
- An Exhortation to Follow the Lord Fully
- It Is the Choiceness of a Man's Spirit That Causes Him to Follow God Fully