• ALL·SVFFICIENCY. houfes, or learning, or knowledge: for there is nothing that brings true praife, butgra~_eonely, Onlygra.ce as nothing drawcs iliame proper!yafter it, but and_finbnng . . · . h' L. l . d . bl pra1feaud finne, 1t 1s notmt ts, 10rt1ere1s a ece!Vea e· fha.mc:. thine-,itis as afl1adow, that hath no fubfl:ance .toa~fwer it,orel[eit is true honor & credit, and ifit bethar, that is but the fhadow thatfoliowes the fubfiance. And therefore our bldfednes, our contentedne!fe, and fatisfadion, refrs rather in thething from whence this credit is gathered, then in the credit it felfe: for that is but a!hadow that fometimes followesir, & fometimes it cloth nor, fometimesit isa larger fhadow, and fometimesa fl1ortcr,thoogh the body bethefame. I mig~1t go through many others, but I wi11 ratherconfirmeall this to you, that I haue faidof the emptineffe ofthe creature,by thatteftimony that is without all exception) that is, by the te fiimony ofGodhim[elfe, even the re!Hmony of the Scriptures,inEcclef.r.z. where the fcopeof theWifoman is to fet out this point, that we are now upon; That is,Thcemptindfeofrhe Creature. Firfi;'fayth he,vanitie ofvanities,a!l is vanitie. That is ; There is in the Creaturean exceffe of · vanitie, as you know, this is the height ofthe Hebrew Superlatiue,vanitieofvanities.Befides, it fignifiethaheape of vanities,ane!l: ofvanities, awondrous exceeding great vanitie, fuchas he · knew not how to expreffc, what that vanitie is thatis in the Creature. It is a vaine thing, we fay, that cannot profit, and therefore we fee in _N 3 the I True honour;~ l SimUe. I ~ I Theemptines r ofthe Crea. f, cure proved, fir£1: !.yargu~ mems. x.Argu. ; ItisfuUofva. ' nitie,nhich appeares, r. In thadtis vnprofitable•
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