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too) who haue not attained to that friiitfuHnes, altho they aime at perfe6lion: And again there are others that haue nothing to commend them but only a gav proffeffion, and thefe are but leavie chriltians, which are in as much danger of being cut down as the dry ftock, for both cumber the ground.

LXV.

"\\ TE fee in the firmament there is but one Sun alio to differ much one from the other in regard of bignes and brightnes, yet all receiue their light from that one Sun : fo is it in the church both militant and triumphant, there is but one Chritl, who is the Sun of righteoufnes, in the mideft of an innumerable com- pany of Saints and Angels; thofe Saintes haue their degrees euen in this life, fome are Stars of the firll magnitude, and fome of a leffe degree; and others (and they indeed the moft in number), but fmall and obfcure, yet all receiue their lufter (be it more or leffe) from that glorious fun that inlightens all in all; and, if fome of them fliine fo bright while they moue on earth, how tranfcendently fplendid fhall they be? w^hen they are tixt in their heauenly fpheres!
 * among a multitude of ftarres, and thofe Itarres

LXVI.

1\ /TEN that haue walked very extrauagantly, and at

-^ laft bethink themfelues of turning to God, the

firll thing which they eye, is how to reform their

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