4 Chainof Principles. 379 ty. Art not thou the fon of Adam! Exerce4. was not he the fon of duff ? was not that the fon of nothing ? when the Lord would humble ,Adam after the fall he put him in minde of his being duff. In thefweat of thy face (halt thoueat Gen.3 x9. 7en.i á.z7,. thy bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out rf it waft thou taken : for dull thou art, and unto duf ¡halt thou return. And when Abraham would be low before God, he ífyleth himfelf duff and allies, Behold now I have taken upon me to Beak unto the Lord, who am but dull and afhes. Ecclus 10.9,. Why art thouproud O dull andof es? faith Siracides, and Bernard, Cúm fis humi li-- nws, cur non es humilimus ? Why art not thoumof humble, Oman,feeing thou art but the duff of the earth. As for the foul that was purely from God, 17ivínee particula auree as an ancient Poet calleth it, for God faith Mo fes, breathed into his noflrils the breath of lfe; and man became a living foul. This íhould render us refilefs till that Image after which Adam was made be renewed in us by C c c 3 rege-
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