Thechi~~o_ng_te!!_!houfan/d. !3S . ~ him) fhe would not have us thinke !he had be· sxv- 1 , BR,, • ftowed her love but on the moft excellent ofall , thechiefeoften thoufond. Wellwereitforusthat l we co~ld doe fo in our love, that we might be abl(! to juftifie our choice, not to fpend it on fin. full, vaine and unprofitable things, whichcaufe repentance &maurning in the conclulion, wher- J ofthe Church hereworthilycleareth her felf,in l that lhe had chofen the thiefi t~mong ten fhoufand. \ And moll: juftlydid fhe place her affections up– on fo excellent anobjed, who was fo full of all the trt~tfores ofwi(edome and knowledge, the lift of Col, t.n. our life, in whom dwtlt all the fitlnefeof the God- , .headbodily , in whom was agracious mixtureand compound of all heave~ly graces, whereGreat– ne!feand Gaodnejt, lujltceand UUercy, Godand Mt~n meet in one Perfon. Such an one who breaks no brmftd reed, nor quenches the(moaking Mat. u , Ax,who rdufesnot finners,but invites them un1 to him, offering to heale all and cure all who come unto him:He is a. King indeed;but this alfo IohR f· approves-herchoice; he rules all,commandsalJ, judges all, what then can fhe want who bath fuch afrifnd,fuch ahusband, whofegovernment is fowinning')mild.and mercifull ~ Re is not fuch aUf,fomtrchas loves to get au1thorityby ftc:rnnef[e likeRe!loboam; butby thofe amiable graces ofgmtlmejfeand love,all the ex– cellencies ofholineffe, purity and righteoufnes, are fweetly tempered with love and mc:ekndfe in him. You may fee for infiance how 'hetakes his Difciples part againll: the Phariftes (and the l . ' · poore •
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