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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, Their Pardon might have been procured at as cheap a rate, and at a little Expense as ours. And yet not them but us God hath chosen to be Vessels o• his Mercy.
Fourthly, Their Pardon might have been procured at as cheap a rate, and at a little Expence as ours. And yet not them but us God hath chosen to be Vessels o• his Mercy.
First, Their Natures were more excellent than ours. They were glorious Spirits, the top and cream of the Creation we Clods of Earth, the Lees and Dreg• of Nature, our Souls, the only part by ⟨p. 27⟩which we claim Kin to Angels, even they are of a younger House, and of a more Ignoble Extract; how are they debased by being confined to these Lumps of Flesh, which, with much ado, they make a shift to drag with them up and down the Earth, rather as Fetters of their Bondage, than Instruments of their Service: nay, so low sunk are we in this slime of matter, that we have not Excellency enough so much as to conceive what a pure Heavenly Orient Substance a Spirit is. And yet such as we are, Dust and Filth, hath God gathered up into his own Bosom; though he hath disbanded whole Legions of Angels, and sent them down into Hell.
First, Their Natures were more excellent than ours. They were glorious Spirits, the top and cream of the Creation we Clods of Earth, the Lees and Dreg• of Nature, our Souls, the only part by ⟨p. 27⟩which we claim Kin to Angels, even they are of a younger House, and of a more Ignoble Extract; how are they debased by being confined to these Lumps of Flesh, which, with much adoe, they make a shift to drag with them up and down the Earth, rather as Fetters of their Bondage, than Instruments of their Service: nay, so low sunk are we in this slime of matter, that we have not Excellency enough so much as to conceive what a pure Heavenly Orient Substance a Spirit is. And yet such as we are, Dust and Filth, hath God gathered up into his own Bosome; though he hath disbanded whole Legions of Angels, and sent them down into Hell.