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 Meditations. 59

grace within, but from Ibme black Clouds that im- pends them, which produces thele fweating effe6ts.

XLVI.

'TT^HE words of the wife, lath Solomon,* are as ■*" nailes, and as goads, both vied for contrary ends, — the one holds fall, the other puts forward; fuch fliould be the precepts of the wife mailers of alfemblys to their heareres, not only to bid them hold fall the form of found Do<5lrin, but alio, lb to run that they might obtain.

XLVII.

A SHADOW in the parching fun, and a fhelter in ■^ -^^ a blullering llorme, are of all feafons the moll welcom; lb a faithfull friend in time of adverfity, is of all other moil comfortable.

XLVIII.

nr^HERE is nothing admits of more admiration, ■^ then Gods various difpenfation of his gifts among the fons of men, betwixt whom he hath put fo vail a difproportion that they fcarcly feem made of the fame lump, or fprung out of the loynes of one Adam; ibme fet in the highefl dignity that mortality is capa- ble off; and fome again fo bale, that they are viler

masters of assemblies, w/tic/i are given from one shepherd." — Eccl. xii. II.
 * " The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the

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