·---~-----+------- ---- What is tbJ Beloroed_,&c. 323 ·/ Cac-holique Church,but here is no fuch beauty· Sn R ·XIV -) It becomesawbore to be painted, to beas faire as her hands can make her, with faigned beauty. But the ChurchofChrift bath a beauty from her husband,a real!, fpirituall beauty, not difcei·ned of theworld. 1 his fhould be of ufe to Gods childrenthem~ felves, tohelp tftem in the uphraidings of confcienu (as ifthey had no goodneffe in them)becaufe they have a great de11le ef iU. Chrifiians lhould have a double eye, one to fee and fixe upon that which is illin them,to humblerhem, and another upon that which is fupernaturallygracious in_ them, to encourage themfelves £They iliould looke upon the~felves as Chrift lookes upon them, and judge of themfdves as he judgeth of them by the better p:nt. He tooks not fo much what ill we have ; for,thatJbaU be wrcught ·OtJt by little ttnd , little, ttna be abolijhed, it ucondemnedalready, 11nd Vfo ThatCbrijlia~;i in the uphrat– dingr of con(ci -[ ence jhouldLoo!~; ~pon thegood a~: on t bei/1 in I them. I it f!;A.U 6e executed by little and little tillit be wholly ttboli ll.ed : But he looks upon us in regard ofthe Tl:at we fhoutJ, J" lool{e upon our. . better part, fo fhould we looke upon our fel ves, ftlver ~ chrift, . though otherwbi]es upon our blacke feet (our Loo~s upon 114. 1 ' \infirmities) when we are tempted to pride and jhaughtineffe;butalwayes let the m~an thoughts 1 we conceive of our felves, make us to flie to r chl'ifi:. · PVhat 15 tk1 Belovtdmore then anotherBelo,ued? Here, is aQg_efHon, and a~efiion anfwered wirh aOE_~fiion : (befiions they breed know- - ledge(as the Greeke Proverbe is)doubtings breed refolution. Whereupon ·the inquifitive foule ufu- t I Y2 ------·- ~l.!t~----~
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