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The

Second

SERMO

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ON

The

Nature

of

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For

his .Name alone

is exceaext.

H E next

thing

is

this,

All

excellencies

are

in God purely,

and

iffamixtly,that is, God

hath

all

excellencies in him, and nothing

elfe but excellency

;

the creature

it

may

have

fome

excellency, but

it

bath

a

mix-

ture of

imperfee-tions

;

it

may

have fome

power

but

there

is

a

mixture

of

weaknefs

;

it

may have

fome goodnefs

but there

is

a

mixture of fome kinde

of

evil

in creatures

as

they

are

in themfelves;

the

very

Angels

themfelves,

though

they

are upheld

by

God,

yet they

have

that

in them

that

might make them

fin again(}

God, if

God

did but leave them to themfelves

:

So

there

is a

mixture

of

weaknefs

in

all creatures, but

God

alone

is

excellent, for

hee

bath

nothing

elfe in him but

that

which is

excellent,

i

Job.

I

.

S,

The Lot

d

is

light,

and

in

him

there

is

ne

darknefs

;

this

cannot

bee

faid

of

any

creature,that the

creature hath ex-

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