Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

\ ALL•SVFFICIENCY. may befaid ofanything elfe. Aman thinkes a Horfeis a Creature that will il:and hirn in much fiead_in the day of.Battell, buta Ho~[e i5 httt a vainething.' l\nd foit is in all other Creatures, they are not able to bring any enrerprize to paffe,herein is thevanitieofrhem. But now this is but rhe ftmple expretlion ofva.. nitie;· Let usconfider (for what can we do bet– ter ftnce we-are vpon this argument) what argu– ments theholy GhDjl vfeth to perfwade vs ofthis truth,thatrhereis nothing but emptineffein the Creature.I befeech you,hearken to ir: for we all thinke there is too much in the Creature, we i110uld not feekcit as we do, our thQughts and affections i11ould not be fo much fi:irred about it as they are, if we did not thinke there were fomething in it. I fay, confider the arguments ' vhich the holy Ghoft vferh, I will but name the places in briefeto you, you may reade them in thefetwo Ch2pters at yourleifure, it will much helpeto bring them to your memory.Firfr~faith the Wife -man, there is nothing hut vt~nitie: for faith he,when llooke vpon the whole Vniverfe, vpon the whole frame ofthings, this I find,firfr, a greatinil:abilitie in them, one gener.ttion com– meth1ttndanothergoeth, theSunne rifeth,and the Sunnefette(h, there is nothing ctm.flt~nt vnder the Sunne. NowthehappiHeffc ofaman,that which will giuecomentto a man,itmull: be fome frable thing:fora man cannot reil: butvponfome Cen– ter,vponfome place, wherehis foule may find fomequiet,and thereforean vnftablething, that - N4 is / l I The Creature vnfiable. ·

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