Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE FIFTEENTH SERMON. ExO 13,14. ^ndMoksfazd unto God, Behold when I comeunto the children of ifrael, and fhall fay untothem, the God of your fathers hath fent mee untoyott,and they fhallfay unto mejvhat is his name$what fiall rfaj unto them ? KjindGodfaiduntoMofes,./ k^AM, TH AT I S wee are to judge of otherthings by the mutability ofthem: folearneto judge of thyfelfe, of thine ownefpirit, bythac conftancy that thou findeftin well-doing 3 or that muta-bility and unconftancy
Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE FIFTEENTH SERMON. ExO 13,14. ^ndMoksfazd unto God, Behold when I comeunto the children of ifrael, and fhall fay untothem, the God of your fathers hath fent mee untoyott,and they fhallfay unto mejvhat is his name$what fiall rfaj unto them ? KjindGodfaiduntoMofes,./ k^AM, TH AT I S wee are to judge of otherthings by the mutability ofthem: folearneto judge of thyfelfe, of thine ownefpirit, bythac conftancy that thou findeftin well-doing 3 or that muta-bility and unconftancy that thou art fubjeft a man would make a cenfure of himfelfe, lethim confider, that the nearer hee comes to vn-changeailenejfe in well-doing, the better hee is, and. Vfe6. To iudge ofour ownc (pi-nts by confta««cj in well-do* U2 The Imm vt ab i l i ty of God. To be humbledfor our uncon«ftancy. A^s 11,23, and the ftrongcr he is:againe,the more mutable,1 the weaker. Thou art to judge of thy felfe, aswee ufe to efteemeone of another. Now let aman be unconftant,one that we can have no holdof, that is as fickle as the weather, that will re-folve upon fuch a thing to day, and change hismind to morrow: what ever learning or excel-lency^ what kindncfle foever is in this man,we regard him not, becaufe he is an learne thou to doe fo with thy felfe,toaskethy felfethat queftion: Haft thou nothad many refolutions, that never came to anyendeavours? Haft thou not begun many goodworkes,and broke off in the middle, and neverfinifhed them? Haft thou not found that proper-ty of folly in thee,To begin ftilltolive? Stulti-tiafemfer inapit<vivere?Ha(i thou not often be-gun and ended,and begun again,& ftill broughtno fruit to perfection: If t
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