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

Thirdly, It enables him to go further in judgement of ¹things; that is the natural man cares not if he can get but just so much holiness as will bring him to Heaven, ⟨image 33⟩but the spiritual man will not be content with any measure: but it is with a spiritual man, as it is with the sun; the clearest sun shine shows the most moats: the clearest glass the least spots, and the best water is next the Fountain: even so when the spiritual man is strong in the Inward man: it sees the more moats and bracks in the spiritual strength, and labours for more strength against weakness, which a natural man cannot conceive of: as in the 1 Pet. 4. 4. They think it strange that you run not with them into the same excess of Riot: that is, they know not the reason, ²or they cannot conceive what should keep men from loving such and such vices, which they love, like blind men they hear the Pipe but see not the persons that dance, so they hear the word, but they see not the rule by which the spiritual man goes. As a Country man that comes and sees a man draw a Geometrical line, he marvels what he means to spend his time about such an idle thing, when that he which draws it knows it is of great use.

Thirdly, It enables him to go further in judgement of ¹things; that is the natural man cares not if he can get but just so much holiness as will bring him to Heaven, ⟨image 33⟩but the spiritual man will not be content with any measure: but it is with a spiritual man, as it is with the sun; the clearest sun shine shewes the most moates: the clearest glass the least spots, and the best water is next the Fountain: even so when the spiritual man is strong in the Inward man: it sees the more moates and bracks in the spiritual strength, and labours for more strength against weakness, which a natural man cannot conceive of: as in the