wards you, to makeyou conquerours over your enemies, togive their coun- triesinto yourpoffeflion, this isan ho- nour pur uponyou, butit isnoother favour, nohigher honour, thenwicked prophane Etas bath had before, you, therefore you haveno greatcaufe tobe puffedup with it. That which theLord faith hereofcon ueft, is trueof paren- tage,ofriches, of honour, ofall out- ward excellencies, they are indeed fa- voursofthe Lord, but no fuch excel- lent things, but that they have been made common to the enemies of the Lord;and therefore there is great rea- fon that our hearts fhould not be puf- fed up with them, but fit loofe from them, Secondly,there is no fuchgreatmat- ter in it, becaufe the birth of the grea- ter is defiled with (Line, in the guilt and uncleanreffe of it, as well as the birthof the meanest : the moff noble bloodupon earth is tainted with high treafon a ainft the God of Heaven whacfoever your birth bee from men, yet you areborneachildof wrath, an enemy to God, loathfome and abomi- nat. le
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