loci ~. The:Creature cannot helpe to eternall happiadfe, Tbcyhelpe· but in parti. cular cafes. Qp. G · ODS: ·houfc beourfriend,theyarc~llathiscommand; you know,thofe mean creatures,theCaterpill:rs: are they not all the Lords Hofl:, that goe & come ·ashe bids~them,,_as I-oel 2 -:-So the meanell: crea– tures, the fire,and the ayre, and whatfocver they are,they areallat-the L@rds comman~,:and there... fore thinke nor, that the creature isable to doe any,thing for us. - There are buttwo things that we need in, one is our .evedafting happindfe; the otheFis for the things ofthis life: for the firfr; there the creature by fruition ofit felfe,isablii:tO do nothing, there iris wholly excluded,for iris inferior to us. Be– fides, there is acurfe upon the creature, thereis an·emptinesinit: befiqes,itisunder theSnnne, & therefore it cannot helpe to the happines, that is aboue theSunne. Thefearguments you fhall find inEcclejia(les:befides,itis temporalI,whereas we muft hauean eternalr h<1ppineffe, for our foules are eternall,and therefore,foreternaH happines: for thechiefe good ofman, the creature is no... thing at all, it helpeth butin particulars. . Take credit, it cloth but helpe againfr ignomi-. ny and obfcuritie: learning -doth but helpe a– gainfr ignorance :healthis but~remedieagainll ftckneffe, and difiemper ofbody !: riches are but an helpe againfl: povertie: and fo goe over all the creatures in the world. But theLord is uni– verfally good, he giues us all things, and there- · foregodlims isprofit-Ahlefor all things:hegiues us al~-thiogs to enjoy: that is, hee fils the fouie of man'Cvery way, not Beloved, that fimplycantn.fi;. mte
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