12 Ex edam utero ignorantie,Ter. a Tit.z.4. .. b Iutde.ver.3. 6 Ga1.6.19. phil 3 16. d Erb f.4,4 e r.00r.3,It. f Ephef.a.t 9. Ephef.3.i 5. t.Tim.3.r5. t.Cor o Gen.'. 27. it.Tim 3.16. Rom8.3. Ephef4 24 ..01.3.t0, The Vanity of the Creature. in the naturali body though the head have a Hat on of fo many fhillings price , and the foot a fhooe of not halfe fo many pence , yet the head doth not therefore defpife the foot , but is tender of it, and doth derive influence as well unto that as to any nobler part : and Purely fo fhould it be among{} men , though God hath given thee an Eminent Ration in the body, cloathed thee with purple and fcarlet, and hath Pet thy poore neighbour ill the lowefi part of the body, and made him converfant in the dirt , and content to cover himfelfe with leather, yet you are frill members of the fame common body, animated with the fame fpirit of Chril, moulded out of the fame dirt, appointed for the fame inheritance, borne out ofthe fane wombeof natu- rall blindneffe, partakers of the fame great and precious promifes;there was not one price for the Soule ofthepoore man, and another for the rich ; there is not one table for Chri/f's meaner guefis, and another for the greater , but the faith is a a Common faith, the falvation a Common falvation, the c rule a common rule, thed hope a common hope, one Lord, and one Spirit, and one Baptifrne, and one God and Father of all; and eOne foundation , and f One houfe, and therefore wee ought to have Care and Compa Ilion one of a nothc r. Secondly, confider that Goodneffe and value which is fixed to the being ofthe Creature, implanted in it by God and the infiitution of nature, and even thus we (hall find them abfolutely unable to fatisfie the delires ofthe rea- fonable and fpirituall Soule. God is the Lord of all the Creatures, they are but as his feverall monies, bee coined them all. So much then of his Image as any Creature hath in it , fo much worth and value it carries. Now God bath more communicated himfelfe unto man , than unto any other Creature ; in his Creation wee find man made after the h fimilitude of God, and in his refiaurati- on wee find -Cod made after the i fimilitude ofman, and man once againe after the k fimilitude ofC od. And now it
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