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on
the
Nature
of
Coas.
alwayes
been
groveling below
in the
dirt,
to
droufie fpirits
that think
nothing
to
bee
excellent
,
but onely
to
eat
and
drink,
and fatistíe their
flefh
;
when
they hear the excel-
lency of Gods
Being
fet
out unto them, it
mull needs bee
an argument
above
their
reach
;
ir
cannot
bee expected
that
it
is
potfible
to
fpeak fo
as
their
hearts fhould clofe with
what is
faid,to
apprehend
it.
But
howfoever
wee do
not
know
what God
may
do in
going along with
his
word,
how
bee
may
come
by his
Spirit
even to
thofe
that
are
of the
we
akell capacity
;
therefore
I
(hall
endeavour
to
do
that that
is
my
work,that is,
to
thew
you
fomewhat of
God, what
an
excellent
being bee is, and
fo
leave the
work
of the
Spirit
of God to
himfelf,
to
make
known
thofe things
that than
bee
propounded
,
and to
fettle
them upon your
hearts. Wherefore then
God
is ax
excellent being above
di
things.
Firll,
Hee
tr,
and
there
is
none
eáfe
betides
him. The
truth
is,
wee
can
fcarce
fay
that
any thing
is
but God,Exod.
3.14.
When God
came
toMofet
to
fend him
to Pharaoh,
and
Mofes
would know
the Name of God,beebid
him
fay,
I
am
that
I
am;
l,am bath
Pent
mee; and
God
only defcribes him
-
felf
thus.
unto
Mofes,
I
am,
I
am a
being;
and
fo
the name
Jehovah
is a
name
proper
to God
,
that
figgnifies
Gods be-
ing:
Now might
Mofes
fay
,
Lord,is this
a
name
that
will
ditlinguith thee from
any
thing
elfe
, to
fay,
I
am
?
cannot
any,
mm
fay fo,
I
am?
but yet
God
gives
this
name of
his,
as
his
proper
name meerly
,
I
am
a
being ,
and
I
am
that
being
that
I
am;
and
that
is
all the
name God
would tell
Mofes ,
when.
Mofes
did
defire
to
know fo much
of
him,
to
tjn1-11t1y
and
how
bee might
exprefs
him
that
did fend
him,
X
am
.:that
lam:
Vt
ba+èáitare
For
indeed
Gods being
it
is
that
that
is
proper,
and all
fitiam id
quad
á
other creatures
in
comparifon
of
this
God,
have
but
a
fha-
comes
thence
dow
of
being
,
therefore
in Prov.8.
t
x.
faith Wifdome
y
ifl
there(éhat
is
Godlinefs)I
caofeto
inherit
tub_
ionce,the words
elJentia
tub-
are ttranflated
by
theLearned,that
which is
Grace
carries to
"Mafia
Ged
,
and
fo by
Grace
being carried
to
God,
wee
cerne
to
in-