The ehiefeH of ten theuf MU~. ------- -:---:-- - --- there hacd beenmore, he i& thiefi.among tent/Jot' fond. H u headis tU moft.frugo!J, hiJ lockoare !Jnfoie aiJd blacke tU aRaven,&c. 1 • Pojjtirt·el_y,Heiswhiteandntddy. 2. c ompa– r~ttively ,He is the chiefejl of ten thoufand. The Church clothnor thinke it fufficient in ge1 nerafl to fet out Cfirift thus, but ihe defcends i~- 1 to a particular defcriptior:l of himbyall the parts of a body that are confpicuous. Firfl in generall obferve hence, That it u the nature of love ttp– on all occttjions ttJ rejlc/1 ttpon the thing loved. As the Church here, from things that are excel– lent in the world > borrows phrafes and com– parifoflsto fet out the excdlency of Chriil, ex. alting him above any other thing. yvhatfcfoever the foule ~f a Chrifiian fc:es in Heaven or Earth, it takes occafion thence to thinke of Love u ever in.· duftrio!(,t to[et out the prai(es ofthe B~lo'lled. c ·hrifi. Again, In generall obferve from hence,feeing rh~ diver:- re. 1 h 1: ·r f larronr . God the Churc 1etcheth compan on rom Doves raher uponbim eyes, from the body of 3 man and mher things, /he'iver th~ 1-hat there are fome beames ofexcellency in every beam!ler of~u . r . exce ency tn creature. There lS 10mewha~ of God m every thecrearurer. creature, this makestbe meditation of the creature tobe ufefull : There is none,'even the meandl,but it hath a being,ane thereby in a fort fets out the being of God. Why cloth God fiile himfelfe a Shield, aRocke, aBuckler, a Shadow, and the like. But to iliew that there is fomtthing of him in thefe, and therefore to · teach us to rife from them to him, in whoi1:t all ~ .·thofe
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