898 Oftbeioyesofhcemen. flore; how glorious, how gratious, howbeautiful! and in- fink in all perfeSlion is he in his owne nature and eflence, which wanteth nothing, though he hauemade his creatures toabound? To this purpofe the authorofthe bookof Wif- dome faith :that though theyhadfrtchpleafurein thebeautie of their idols,(as the Sun, Moone, andreaofthe creatures)yet Wifdotme t3.. fhonld they bane knowne hot' muchmore excellent he is that 344.5 made them : for thefirfi author ofbeautie bath createdthefe things ; ori f theymarvelledat thepowerand operation of them, yet lbouldtheybaneperceioted thereby, how much be that made theft things is mightier : for by thegreatnes and the beautie of thecreatures, theCreator being compared with them may bee confrdered. For if the fingular partsofbeautie andgoodnes, being diuided and difperfed amongfl the creatures, be fo louely anddelightfull; then what admirable loue and de- light (hall we;bane in the chiefe goodneffe, in whom alone they are contained, compa&ed,and infinitly furpaf ed and excelled? ìflifecreated be fo pleafant,howmuchmore is life Auguft.Ltedi the Creator? if healthbe fofweete and comfortable, how 'zt.,cap.'s. much more is he that made health? if wifdome be louely, confining in the knowledgeofthingscreated,how infinitly louely is that wifdome, which bath created them all ofno- thing? Dowe therefore loue beautie in the creatures? we Thal fee it infinitely redoubled inthe Creator, from which crynallfountaine thefe littledrops haue flowed. Dowe loue vertueandgoodnesinmen? they are infinit in theGod of vertueand goodnes. Do we delight in wifdome ? he is the God of wifdome and knowledge,fromwhich greatlight, men haue receiued thefe little fparkes. Do wedelirehonors, riches,and pleafures? why he is theGodofall glorie, who fatisfieth and filleth all withhishidden treafures; andinhit Pfalmu16.4:. prefencers fulneffe ofioy, and at hit right handpleafures fore sermore.ln aword, whatfoeueris good, pleafant, and deli- rable in all the creatures, it isconioyued andby infinitede- grecs furpaffed in the Creator,from whom they haue hadail theirexcellencie, without any diminutionofhis fulnes and perfeccfion. 4.Seç?.4,. Andthusit appearesh, that the perfe&ion.ofour happi rkt,a1;hekip. neffe
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