-98 T'he Life of GOD confider thefe ev;I qualities as the difeafes , and diflempers of a foul, which in itfdf is capable of all that wifdom and goodnefs wherewith th~ ~eft of faints have ever been adorned, and which 1nay one day come to be. raifed to fuch heights of perfection, as fhall render it a fit companion for t.he holy angels; this will turn our avedion into pity, and n1ake us behold him with fu.ch refent– n1ents) as we :fhould have when we did look upon a beautiful body that were n1angled with ':vounds, or disfigured by fome loth- . fome difcafe; and, however we hate the vices, we fhall not ceafe to love the m.an. In the next place, for purifying our To beget purity fouls,_ and difintangling our we fhould con~ affections fron1 the pleafures lider the dign ity and enJ· oyments of this lower of our nature. 1. c l fi l . ne, et us requent y ponder the excellency and ·dignity of our na– ture, and what a :fhameful and unworthy thing it is for fo noble and divine a crea– ture as d1e foul of man, to be funk and itnmerfed in bru tifh and fenfual lufls, or amufed with airy and fantaftical delights, and fo to lofe the reliih of folid and fpiri– tual pleafures; that the beafl ihould be fed and pampered, and the man and the chriflian be flarved in us. Did we but mind who we are, and for what we were n1ade,
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