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what shall become of the unhappy wretches that despise God in that wise, and […] against him, saying, we know no more what the true doctrine ⟨p. 87⟩and Religion mean. So much the more then ought we too humble our selves, and too know that sith God hath revealed himself unto us, now that he is joined too us with an inseparable bond, and hath showed himself a father too us, and hath vouchsafed too make us members of the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and made us one with him, with condition that whatsoever he hath, belongeth now unto us: we ought too learn too magnify that grace, and too acknowledge what we have bin, and what we should be still, if God had not showed himself merciful towards us.

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Hereupon a man might demand what S. Paul meant by the word World: for it should seem that out of the world they were not without God. Howbeit, that was too aggravate the matter so much the more, by saying that the Ephesians had enjoyed the light of the Sun, all the Elements had served them, & they had received so many commodities of Gods gift in all his creatures, and yet had not known him. For what else is the world but an open stage whereon God will have his majesty seen? Let us lift up our eyes: do not the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, lead us too him that gave them the virtues which we perceive in them? For behold, the sun is far of from us, and yet he giveth us light. Again, he causeth the earth too bring forth fruits, also we see the double course that he keepeth: and although he wander now on the one side, and now on the other, yet notwithstanding he keepeth his compass continually, and never forgetteth how far he ought to go on the one side or on the other, as huge a mass as he is. If a Ball or a Boule were too be held up, it would need some help: but behold, the Sun hath nothing to hold it up, but the secret power of God: and yet notwithstanding he is so huge and infinite a mass, as exceedeth all the whole earth. Mount he up, or go he low, turn he, or return he, on the one side or on the other: yet keepeth he his course still every day through the whole world, & every year also on the contrary part, and yet for all this he misseth not in any of all those things. Too be short, when we behold the skies, we ought too be ravished with desire to go unto God. Again, when we behold the things that are nearer us, namely the variety of the good things that God bestoweth upon us: (we have cause too do the like.) Finally without going any further, let us but enter into our selves. If a man look but upon one of his fingers, what workmanship and what goodness of God is there? We then are in the world where