I ©4 Mofes his se f deniall. contemptible in the eyes of filch a ai. fed foule :many poivc limitedmen are below them, and looke up to them as great- matters, and thinke, oh how nap pie fhouwd they be if they could attaine to them,theybleffe them ho have got up to them, but grace is ofan elevatin nature; and it manifeffs it felfe tobee fromon high, even from hcaven, from the Godor heaven, who is infinitly a boyetheheavens, and it raifeth the foul to Godhimfelfe, fo that not ondy the things of theearth, but even heaven it felfe would appeare but a poore low me"ane thing, beneath the dignity of a foule, made partakerof the divine na- ture,t,ere it not that the gloriouspre- fence ofGod werethere. As itargues theexceeding greatneffe ofthe heavens, that all theearth is but as a point to them, all the huge great mountaines, and vaïl circumference of theearth is as nothing in comparifon ofthem : fowhenali the honours, de- lights, and riches of the earth, which are efteemed fuck huge and mighty thingsby the men of the world, yet to a gracious fpirit,thoughenioyed to the full'
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