Howe - B3999 R4 H68 1702

Part II. The Living Temple. 231 may be as neat, and accurate, as we can devife to make it. Twill fuffice it be fuch, as will ferve our turn : And indeed, in the Works of Nature, it would havebeen left worthy of God, to have expre[t a fcrupulous Curiofity, that nothing might ever fall out besides onefixed Rule, (efpecially in a flate of things defgn'd for no long Continu- ance) that thould extend toall imagin- able Particularities, as that all Men ihould beof the comlieft Stature, all Faces of the molt graceful Afpe&t with a thoufand the like. But in mat- ters wherein there can be better, and worfe, in a moral it Teems a Prin- ciple of the plaineft Evidence, that the Wed Godcannot but do that which is imply the bell yea, while a neceflity is upon us, not only to mind things that are true, and .4, and pure, but alto, that are lovely andofgood report; we have nocaufe to doubt, but what- foever is coolly, and befeeming his moll per,f e Excellencies, is an eternal indif- penfable Law to him : Wherefore, it is not enough to confider, in the prefent cafe, what it were ftriHly not unjuji for him to do; but what is fit, and becoming fo excellent, and glorious a Iriojefby as his. Q 4 Nor

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