\ . J I - \! ,, , l!ea~t~Zreafore~ · a: gracious foules fa.~isfaB:ion from the [weet refulc of his ownhearr, to 01ew that amans own confcience ' is either his ' heav~n or hell , his greatefi comforter or · torm~n: y tor : ··· the World cannot alter the joy dr fadneffe of the heart: a through-paced well~ , tryed . Childe of ®od,. hath l1is rejoycing in himfelf alone , and not in an-other , Gal11t. ~. 4· 'Tis a pedling beggarly life to .wan– der abroad for models, but chats a noble kinq of living, when a ma'n hach all within dootes, and needs not creatures forry cqn"'~ , - tributions : I [peak not of the fJ.ncied Fa~ milifiical deification, which is nothing leffe then' blafphemie, but certainly' the {ound Chriftian in a found fenfe beares fome re"! jemblance ' of the Di vinitie in this [ iu· ... 7ctrx.&:£OG ] felf-(ufficiency; and the more treafure, the more; like God; for fuc~ a fQul is elevated above the creature, and fixed in an higher Orb, whither fi:orines and rem'"! pefts cannot reach; nay, a foul whofe con~ verfacion is in Heaven, bath no dependance upon, nor intelligence with the creature, in order to con1pleating hrs telkity : no more than the Sun needs the glimmering light of - the Stars eo1nakeday : who then would n,ot ~-- have this treafure ? I might alfo add herein, che Chriftians refetnbJance to the infinite Je~ hovah, becaufe he bath a principle of motion within him[elf , and ,not from without ', fgr ~as God is~ free agent, yea a pure a,tl',fo in a. ~ fcr)fe.are theSaints a6ling from an inward prin– . fiple ,: I~encc thqfe Sc.riptu~e;.e~preffiop~ of ~ nuns . . ' ; .
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