comfortable walking with God. Let the flying light of thy divine knowledge, fpiricuall wi,edome, heavenly underflanding, or what other excel- lencies, and perfeEtions of the minde fining in'thy foule; refemble in all fruitful! improvements, and free communi- cating it (elfe, that bountiful! light i a the bodyofthe Sunne. That t. firfl ìllighteneth that goodly Creature wherein it originallydwelles, and makes it the faireft and beautifullefl thing in the world. 2. Next, it illuminates, and beautifies all the Orbes, andheavenly bodies about it. 3. Thirdly, by theproje&ion ofhis beames, it begets all the beauty, glory, fweetenefïe,wehave here below on the earth. 4. Fourthly, it inlinuates into every chinke and crany of the earth, and concurres to the making ofthofe precious metals, which lye in her bowels. 5.Fiftly,his beames glide by the fides of the earth, and illighten even the oppofite part of Heaven, with all thcf glorious Starres we fee ;pining in thenight. G.Sixth- ly, it is fo communicative, and greedy of doing good in its kinde, that it firikes thorow the firmament in the tranfpa- rent parts, and feekes to bellow its brightnefle and beauty, even beyond the Heavens ; and never reflraines the free communication of ás influence and glory, until! it deter- mine by naturali and neceffarie expiration. Even fo pro- portionably, let the fruitful! Iight of thy divine knowlege, an heavenly counfell ef,ecially, be flit! working,fhining, fpreading todoe all poflìble good. r. Let it, Firfi, make thine owne foule all glorious within, fairely enlighten it with an humble reflexion of felfe-knowledge, with puri- tie, peace, and fpiricuall prudence, to guide conflantly thine owne feete, with all uprightneffe and patience, inthepatñ that H calledHoly, á, Secondly, Let it Thine upon thy family, and thofe that are next about thee, with all feafonable in- flruitions convincing them of the truth, and goodneffe of a O afo iui !- a tor,qu omnt.. the wayes of God, either for their convert-ton, or in- bus tibi fubjeais in domo eua, à. majoreif; adminimitm amorena & duleedinemregnicceleíìis, amaritudinem, &timorem gthenna:.. annuncie;,& deaorumfa, lutefolicitus, acpetvigilexilias:quia proomnibus tibi fubjeftis, quiin do.. ono CM felt ratienem domino reddcs. Annunci r, eracipe, Impera, fuade cis,ut caveantfe à fupetbia> a de,ratìione, ab ebrietate. à fbrnicatiore, à luxnria,ab ira, à perjuti.o, à cupiditate gem eft raàia omnium u aiomm, ..4ugui7.Tem.4.par, z. defyiurarsbusdocumenrss,paq.54e. s excu- 259
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