°riftspeople a 'Wiling people. ......_ ..Ims be fanaified throughout, to bring forth more fruit, to w alke in a pleating, to be holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable, without fpot or wrinkle. It is an abfurel thing in religion to dote upon mediocrities of grace ; in eo nonpotefI efenitinsto, rod etremaximum debet ; Hee that with all the exaaneffeand rigour ofhis heart, can never gather together ail grace, can Purelynever have too much. In falfe religions no man fo much magnified as he that is flriaeil : that Papift which is moll cruel to his flelb, moll affiduous at his beads, moll canonical in his houres, moll macerated with fuperflitious penance,rnofi frequently profirated before his idols, is of all other moll admired for the greatea Saint. 0why fhould not anholy flrianeffebe as much honoured as a fuperfiiti- oust? why fhould not exaaneffe, purity, and a conten- ding unto perfeetion, be as much purfued in a true as in a falfe religion ? Why fhould not every man firive to be filledwith grace, fince he cannever have enough till hee have it all, till he is brimme-full ? Hee that truely loves wealth,would be the richer} ; and he that loves honour, wouldbe thehigheil ofany other : certainly grace is in it falfe more lovely thananyofthefe things. Why then fhould not every man firive,to be moll unlike the evill world,and to be more excellent than his neighbour, to be holy as God is holy, to be as Chrifi himfelfe was in this world,to grow up in unity offaith,and in theknow- ledgeofhim, unto a perfeCt man ? Certainly, if a man once let his will and hisheart upon grace, he will never refl in mediocrities; he will labour to aboundmore and more, he will never think himfelfc tohave apprehended, but forgetting the things which are behinde, hee will reach forth to thole things which arebefore him, for all the defires oftheheart arc firong,andwill over-rule any other natutall defire. The griefe of.Dovids heart made him forgettoeat hisbread. The defire ofChrifts heart toconvert theSamaritanwoman, made himoak&of Y 4 his
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