Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

VPRIGHTNE·S. ·,do, and.becurious·and'q.uaint ofOratory: faith '· 'he, thefed1ings, asldeliverthem, ,whatfoever : theymay·feemero · otne~men; .yetto thofethat : areperfed;they,feemeWlfedome;though other~ - . maydefpifdt,~nd · r.eckonit foolilhnefie, .yet..to ! the perfect it is wifedome.~o that ~g~rher he1_1ce~ . .' a ptrfe&m.anin this is difiingnifhed from ano.:.. 'ther .tlilt is-not found-hearred,that he· hatheyes tofeethewifdmnofthe Holy_ Ghofi he knowes. wifdome~'-- Nowa perfect:·man is there focaiied; in op~ Aman me• pofition to him th'atis onely anirtMlis, that ha rh: Jy~aturallis onelya reafonablefoule and·no ·more; for that~·. :;.~~~Ccd:- is the word, the fame word tharisufed in ano-· ' ·· - therplace of this Chapter,the D?turaJf'mari,it istranflated, b'uttheword in theQriginalf ;figni- - fies a man-that hatli onely: naturall abilities, and· ~ndowments,. and.naturall perfections,fuch a tnan.:is reckonedan imperfect man, _a man that: · is not found: <Hut f:1ith the Apofrle to ·aman·- that is perfett, that is,- ,t0"4l man tha~ hath; be– ~idesth~- ~r~ng~h! o~natura~I ·~ifts.3~hef~ntli~>:- . ' mg Sptrlt that enltghtnethhlm,tnatthe Sprntof God poffelfeth and informes ·his·· foufe, it joyneswithhisfoule,itis dwellirigiri him ;fuch ·· a. one is a perfedman; .faith ' be-, and you ·1half know liim bythis, .he difcernes the wifedome · of God,' he jtid'gerh· aright ofib fothat, my Bel~ved, the meaning of it isthis,-thereis '1- cer--· .taine wifc·domeof Gqd,ifierearecertairiethi.hgs,. 'that nonatura!I-man in the world teaches ·or re• • '\ilhes: take the hypocrite,that goes·thefurthetl ' ~ . \ 1n ~--------------------------------~--~ I,

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