Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

• • V p R l 4i H T N E s• . tofulfiLS o in every mans particular calling,that ,courfethat ·Godharh fixed toevery man, that he hath prefcribed tOevery particular man(tO fome 1onger,tofome fhorter, (this is the difranceofa mans journey.) John Bapti.ft had a fl1ort er courfe .hefulfilled his courfe,hepreached not a~ouethree or foure yeeres.Paulfulfilled his courfe likewife, .a longer race., but it was that whichGodhadap- . pointed him>fo the diffimilitude betweenegrace .and fin ne; and againe, the courfe tha-t Godbath ·~ I Tht4:ourfe that God ap.; I poyntethu · to fu16U. ' \ appointed every man to fulfill, and ferue God in his time, this is the dill:ance and the fpace of this ll Journey. Againe; the next to.~his }s the ground: fora 4 ; man mufi: hauf. fo,mething to hold him np, when :rhe ground • hewalkes,the ft-round .upon which he walkes, is J!~he.timcof . 1 ~ h · f h·"'1·f · &· ld h 1 · d . f thJslJfc. t eume o t 1s 1 em t 1s wor. , t e atttu eo ·thislite,thatGodharhafforded to every ma·nthat isthe field,as it were, thflt he \Yalkcs i.n: wefe~ in the world gr~~t vari~tie-ofmen, and variet~e o.f courfes, that is theground, the {pace allqrted to him,hemay walkewhither he wil.,h~ may walke wh.ich way h~ pleafeth. · .. But lafily, as there mufi qeatermetowhich, $ another from which,as there mufrbeadifi:anc.e, The path. & aground,fo chiefly he that w:tlkes mufl: haue a certainepath,acertaine way: to vyalke in. In a ··wildernes,tbere is ground enough,but theris no path, but when you goto a certaineplace, there mufr bealwayesacertaineway, acertainehigh– way, apath that leadcs to it: now t he path that w~hauetowalke in, you haue it diverfiy expref- · = ~, fed ,_

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