tl the Chief of Si11Hers~ t 39lifelefs, though . fUll .founding Cymbals. 3~ 1. This confideratton therefore, toge– ther with fome others were for the mofi: part,- as a Ma~l .on the head of Pride, aAd defire of vain Glory : What,- thought 1., Ihalll beProud·becaufe I atn a foundingBrafs? Is it fo much to be a Fiddle! ·H11th n1t the leaft Creature-that hAthLife, n1ore ofGod in it then thefe .?' B·efides, I knew, 'twas LDve Jh.ould never die, .but thefe .moft ccafe and ,.va– ndh: So I conclude~, a httle G,race, a httle Love,a little of the true Fear of God is bet– ter then all thefe Gifts : Y.ea, and I am fully convinced of ·it, that it is poffible for Souls that can fcarce give ·a n1an an Anfwer, hut ·with great confufion·a~ to method, ]fay it is . poffible for them to have a thoufand times . more ·Grace, and fo to be more in ·the loTe and favonr of the Lord, then fome who by vertue oftne gift of Knowledge, can deliver themfelves like Angels. 302. Thus therefore I came to perceive, that though gifts in themfelves \Vere good to the thing for w~ich they are defigned, to . w~t, the E9ification ofothers, yet en1pty and Without power to fave the, Soul of him that hath then1, if they be 11/one: Neither are they, as _fo, any fign. ofa .n:tans frate to be happy bc1ng only a dtfpenfauon of God to io1ne of · whofe improvement or non-improvement they muft when a little love more is over givea~ account to him that is rea,dy to judg~ • G 30
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