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The useful benefit of this Observation teacheth us, to make way through our own natural wretchedness, to the admiration of our Saviours gracious goodness. He loved us tantillos & tales, paruos & pravos, so small in deserts, so vile in defects; without any precedent congruity, or subsequent cond•gnity, in nobis, quod à nobis, in our selves, that was or is of our selves: For all the beauty of S•ons daughter, is derived from Gods Son. ^gThy renown went forth among the Heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, sayeth the Lord God. God said once to Jerusalem, ^hThy birth and thy Nativity is of the land of Canaan, Thy Father was an Amorite, and thy mother as i Justite. None eye pitied thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person. But when ⁱI passed by thee, and •wor• thee polluted in thine own blo•d, I had compassion on thee: I washed thee with water, clothed thee with broidered wo•k, decked thee also with ornaments, put a Jewell on thy forehead, and a beautiful crown on thy head. We have all an Amorite to our Father, an H••ne to our mother; I mean, are concei•ed and borne in sin; to •o•le, and full of corruption, that there could no temptation ⟨p. 11⟩be shot from us, to wound the breast of Christ with love. Sported we were, and nothing but nakedness was left to cover us: sick, but without care of our own cure: deformed and luxate with the persecution of vanities; quadrupedated with an earthly, stooping, groping, grovelling, covetousness: not only spotted and speckled (in concret• ) but spots and blemishes, (in abstracto) pollution it self. As Micah calls Jerusalem and Samaria, not pecantes, but peccata: