Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

This therefore should in the next place teach all of us to study and delight in the Law of God, as that which setteth forth, and maketh more glorious and conspicuous the mercy of Christ. Acquaintance with our selves in the Law, w•ll▪ First, keep us more lowly and vile in our own▪ eyes, make us feel our own pollution and poverty; and that will again make us the more delight in the Law, which is so faithful to render the face of the Conscience; and so make a man the more willing, and earnest to be cleansed. Their heart, saith David, is as fat as ¹grease, but I delight in thy Law. The more the Law doth discover our own leanness, scraggedness and penury, the more doth the Soul of a Holy man delight in it because Gods mercy is magnified the more, who filleth the ²hungry, and refresheth the weary, and with whom the fatherless findeth mercy.

This therefore should in the next place teach all of us to studie and delight in the Law of God, as that which setteth forth, and maketh more glorious and conspicuous the mercy of Christ. Acquaintance with our selves in the Law, w•ll▪ First, keepe us more lo•ly and vile in our owne▪ eyes, make us feele our owne pollution and poverty; and that will againe make us the more delight in the Law, which is so faithfull to render the face of the Conscience; and so make a man the more willing, and earnest to be cleansed. Their heart, saith David, is as fat as ¹grease, but I delight in thy Law. The more the Law doth discover our owne leannesse, scraggednesse and penurie, the more doth the Soule of a Holy man delight in it because Gods mercie is magnified the more, who filleth the ²hungrie, and refr•sheth the weary, and with whom the fatherlsse findeth mercie.