/ The lnfinitene!Je, and ties and lives ; and all other things, as they are . more precious tO us,fo the more we feare the lo!fe ofthem. Now thegoodne.JTeofGod is greater than ail other things; it is beyond all thefe,as havirng all thefc in it: therefore we are to feare the loffe of it,as thegreateHevill in the world. · Furthermore, ifwe could fee ~he ex ten!ion of his wrat.h,andgoodnejle; the loffe of the one,would " be thegrea,teftloffe; and the having tbe other,the greatejt crolfe to us; the enjoying of the or.c, tbe greatefl good;, and the enduring of the other, the greateft evill in the world, in our efieeme. The conlidfration of this, {hould helpe us to guide our hopes and feares aright; foragreatcau(e of mif-leading us in ourway~s,are the vaine hopes j and feares that wee are fubJect to: wee feare the Iotfe offriends,and loffe of lives and liberties;but thefe, in comparifon,are not to be feared. This ufe Chriff makes of it; Feare not thofe that cankill the 6ody, butfeare thegreat God, that candeffroy both IJodyandfoule~Thegret~tneffeofbis wrathwe fhould feare as thegreateft evill_; and hisgoodnejfe, as the chiefeHgood: and our tl10ughts. and intentions being taken up ·about thefe two, it would fer our hopes and feares arighr; and worldly things, as / 17ft j. credit)and profir,&c;\yould feeme nothing to us, That no ::~Jfc,. a11d prevaile nothingwith us. €tion or obedience in us is If God be fo exceedinggreat, then there is no . greha~ enough loYe enough, no aff~C:tion, node fire anfwerabie I for tm,and . h. If. ] ~" .n. • Id therefore not to I m. our ove were perrevL,yettt cou not j tG Hmi~ ou: reach to him, whofe greatnejfe doth farre exceed ;h~r~s m cl- J it: but being imperfed:,as it is, it falls exceeding · 1bort
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