The Soul's Conflict with Itself

It is a matter both to be wondered at and pitied, that the soul having God in Christ set before it, alluring it unto him, that he might raise it, enlarge it, and fill it, and so make it above all other things, should yet debase & make it self narrower and weaker by leaning to things meaner then it self.

It is a matter both to be wondred at and pittyed, that the soule having God in Christ set before it, alluring it unto him, that hee might raise it, inlarge it, and fill it, and so make it above all other things, should yet debase & make it selfe narrower and weaker by leaning to things meaner then it selfe.

The Kingdom, Sovereignty, and large command of Man, continueth while he rests upon God, in whom he reigns (in some sort) over all things under him; but so soon as he removes from God to any thing else, he becomes weak and narrow and slavish presently; for,

The Kingdome, Soveraignty, and large command of Man, continueth while he rests upon God, in whom hee raignes (in some sort) over all things under him; but so soone as he removes from God to any thing else, hee becomes weake and narrow and slavish presently; for,

The soul is as that which it relies upon; if on vanity it self becomes vain; for that which contents the soul must ⟨p. 325⟩satisfy all the wants and desires of it, which no particular thing can do, and the soul is more sensible of a little thing that it wants, then of all other things which it enjoys.

The soule is as that which it relyes upon; if on vanity it selfe becomes vain; for that which contents the soule must