a choiceana preci®usfpirit, are greater and more fearful! miferies due to it then can be conceived : yea, theywould leecaufe,that ifGod fhould bring thole evils upon them for their fin , that these is i.nhniLe equity th t they fhould lay their hands upon their mouths, and take fhatne to themfelves, andacknowledge the Lord to be ri4h teous, forever. Sixthly , where there areoncly na- tural! and moral! excellencies ,they do not raife the foul to a loveof the flrid- cfi wayes ofGod; they think ofaccu- ratenífe and exaftreffe inGods wayes tobe but niceneffe and too .much pre- cifenefie ; !tike-w,- rmncffe is theonely temper fumble to them ; they thinks wifdome .cc.nfifls in the remiffion of godlin;ffe, not in the improvement of it; and what. is beyond their temper, they judge as weakneffe and folly; and it muff needs be that morall men must have fuch thoughts ofthcflrianeffe of the wayes of God becaufe that good they have is fuchas at iíes from theprim ciples of natural! reafon , and makes A naturall good its end; and therefore all their venueand goodneffemuff be filch P as 2C9
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