The BeautieofBoline J 351 .,.. of pleating his wicked companions. And therefore Saint complainethof it as of a prodigiouscorrupti- onofhis nature, that he did sometimes belie himfelte to his wicked affociates, and boafled of the wickednefie whichhe durfi not pra&ife. No woman will paint her felfe with dung, or fprcad inke upon her face. It mutt be beautifull in it felfe which any man will ordinarily counterfeit fo that Holineffehuh the prerogative ofan enemies fuffrage, which is oneof the firongeft evidences, to tea& the beauty and excellency thereof: This point will more diain&ly appeare ifwe confider either the eAuthor, Nature, properties, or Operations of this Holineffe. Full, the Author God hinifelfe by his fpirit. The very God ofpeacefana.filots irbolly,faith the Thetis. r _ _ __e_ I 23 Apofile, and the Godof peace make you perfeR in every good worke to doe his will. Therefore the fpirit is called Rom.l. 4. a fpirit of Holincffe, by the power whereofChrit} ri- fing from the dead was declared to bee the Sonne of God, tonote the anfwerableneffebetwene railing from the dead or giving life where there wasnone before,and the fantiification ofa (inner. Therefore the Apotile cal- leth it the renew iigofthe Holy Ghoft, and the forming ofChritt in us, the quickning, and creatingus to good 1-. workes. By all which we may note that what Beatific Gli4'5;9. the Creation brought upon that emptie and unfhaped Ephcf.2.5, 0. Chaos when it was diRributed into this orderly frame which we now admire ; or what beatific the reunion of a living Ionic unto a dead and galily body doth reflore unto it; the fame beautie doth Holineffe bring unto the foule ofaman which was filthy before. But yet fur- ther we muff note that God didnot make man as other ordinarie creatures,for fame low and inferior ufe, (and yet Salomon faith, that they were made all beatstifmll in their time) but there was a paufe,a confultation,a more thancommon wifedome, povver,andmercie revealed in the workemanfhip of man : for God made man for I his VERSE 3.
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