' ' Fearefulncffe in profd1ion .whence it is. Th~ lnfiniteneffo, 'ani with GoD then mutl: they bearc no weight at all:) and thus becaufe. difgrace and difparage– menr) &c. feemed but httle toPAul) he defpiied them all. · · So from this weakene!fe ofmind arifeth tbat · cowardlineffe which wee fee often in men• V\' hence is ti that men are fa fearefull to hold out the light ofa holy profeffion? is it not from hence, that they are pujillanimottS, th~lt they doe too much efi:eem~ the face and fpeechcsofmen? A Lion, becaufe he knowes hirnfelfe to be a Li· on, ifthe dogs barke, he walkes in the frreet and· regards them not; he turneth not his head afide for them: So a magnanimous man, that knowes hirnfelfe in G o os favour, will paff'e by the obloquiesofmen. You {hallfecDA'Vid did fo: hec went on in a courfe like a Lion, whenshi– mei railed againft him, fo that the two fonnes ofZerviahwould.have cutoffhis hea·d: No, let him alone, faith he~ the LDra then raifed him uP. toa.grelltnrf]eofminde. S'O was ·it with Paul, bee paj]cd throu,~h evi!J report, And good report, and never turned afide for any. So-Mofes and l eremy, They /hall[mitt thee with the tongue of men, &c. !ayes G o D, but 1 am ~ith thee, and I ffiill wMI:e thee abrazenwAU,anlan ironpillar. And fo, ifwee cot.1ld fee 'Go o in his gretttneffe, all thefe out– ward things would feemenothing tous. Asan hundred Torches appeare to be nothing, when we lookcupon the Sunne: fo, ifwe could confi– der ari-ght ofthegreAtnejfeo£G o o~· .all the faire fpecches ofmenwould be as nothing.. Now the way
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