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vnworthynes, and that will make him fay with Jacob, I am leffe then the leaft of thy mercys.

LXI.

/^~^ORNE is produced with much labour (as the ^"^ hull)andman well knowes), and fonie land afkes much more paines then fome other doth to be brought into tilth, yet all muft be ploughed and harrowed ; fome children (like fowre land) are of fo tough and morofe a dilpo[ii]tion, that the plough of correftion muft make long furrows on their back, and the Har- row of difcipline goe often ouer them, before they bee fit foile to fow the feed of morality, much leffe of grace in them. But when by prudent nurture they are brought into a fit capacity, let the feed of good in- flru6tion and exhortation be fown in the fpring of their youth, and a plentilull crop may be expected in the harueft of their yeares.

LXII.

A S man is called the little world, fo his heart may ■^ -^ be cal'd the little Commonwealth: his more fixed and refolued thoughts are like to inhabitants, his flight and flitting thoughts are like paffengers that trauell to and fro continvally; here is alio the great Court of iuftice erected, which is alway kept by con- fcience who is both accufer, excufer, witnes, and Judg, whom no bribes can pervert, nor flattery caufe to favour, but as he finds the evidence, fo he abfolues or condemnes: yea, fo Ablblute is this Court of Judi-

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