Burroughs - BT715 B8 1654

The Evil ofEvilor the clods ofthe Earth ; but Noble and. great men are buffed inState Affairs, theybe railed higher becaufe they convene with Princes, and great Affairs ofState; the thingsthey converfe about arehigher, and therefore they are more noble and higher than other men. As lone children ofmen know no other excellency than to eat and drink, and play, and be filthy, and have no- thing but that which the Beafis have : but o- thers, to whomGod bath revealed himfelf, and -bath made them of fuch a noble Nature, that when others be in bale a&sofuncleannels, that know no other wayof rejoycing in time of Toy, but laughing; andeating and drinking, and fil- thinels : but others can get alone, and there contemplate ofthe gloryof thegreat God, and their fouls beopened to God, and God lets in beams of himfelf to them, and they let out beams oftheirlove toGod, and their defires to God, there is an intercourfe between Heaven and them; God opens himfelf to them,and they open their fouls toGod, and ío.enjoy communi- on fromGod; and theybecaufe they have the LifeofGod in them,they be fitto convenewith God : For mark, thofe things that converfe one withanother, be fuch things that mull live the fame life; as now, man can convene with man ; why? becaufe he lives the fame life that man lives ; but man is not fo fit to convene' with beaufs, becaufe they live not the fame-life; though tome men live even the very life of beaufs : as a beaft cannot convene with plants but onlydevours them) becaufethey live not the

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