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then the earth: Ibme lb wile and learned, that they feeme like Ang-ells amono- men ; and fome ag-aine lb io-norant and fotilli, that they are more like beafts then men: Ibme pious faints; Ibme incarnate Deuils: Ibme exceeding beautylull; and Ibme extreamly deformed: fome lb fhrongr and healthfull that their bones are full of marrow, and their brealls of milk; and fome againe lb weak and feeble, that, while they Hue, they are ac- counted among the dead, — and no other reafon can be giuen of all this, but {o it pleafed him, whole will is the perfect rule of righteoufneffe.

XLIX.

nr^HE treafures of this world may well be compared •^ to hulkes, for they haue no kerncll in them, and they that feed vpon them, may loon lluffe their throats, but cannot fill their bellys; they may be choaked by them, but cannot be fatisfied with them. u

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OOMTIMES the fun is only Ihadowed by a cloud walk by his light, but when he is let we are in dark- nes till he arife againe; lb God doth fomtime vaile his face but for a moment, that we cannot behold the light of his Countenance as at fome other time, yet he affords lb much light as ma}' direct our way, that we may go forwards to the Citty of habitation, but when he feemes to fct and be quite gone out of light, then
 * ^-^ that wee cannot fe his lulter, although we may

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