Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

It is a general good disposition, or right habit, a temperature or a due frame of the mind, whereby it is enabled to please God in all things. 1. I say it is a general good disposition or right habit, because a disposition to some one particular good is ¹not strength, as for example, to have present passion to good & not to continue, argueth not strength in the inward man, or to have the understanding strong, & yet to have the will and affections weak is not to be strong in the inward man, but they must be all fortified as for example, a man or a woman is not said to be perfectly beautiful, except they be beau tiful in all parts, for beauty is a fit composure of all parts: so likewise a man is not throughly strong but imperfect except he be strong in all parts, that is strong in the understanding, strong in the will, strong in the affections.²

It is a general good disposition, or right habit, a temperature or a due frame of the mind, wherby it is enabled to please God in all things. 1. I say it is a general good disposition or right habit, because a disposition to some one particular good is ¹not strength, as for example, to have present passion to good & not to continue, argueth not strength in the inward man, or to have the understanding strong, & yet to have the will and affections weak is not to be strong in the inward man, but they must be all fortifi'd as for example, a man or a woman is not said to be perfectly beautiful, except they be beau tiful in all parts, for beauty is a fit composure of all parts: so likewise a man is not throughly strong but imperfect except he be strong in all parts, that is strong in the understanding, strong in the will, strong in the affections.²

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