The Godly Man's Picture

2. Christ will not quench the beginnings of grace, because a little grace is precious as well as more: A small Pearl is of value: Though the Pearl of Faith be little, yet if it be a true Pearl it shines gloriously in Gods eyes: A Goldsmith makes reckoning of the least filings of gold, and will not throw them away: The pupilla oculi, the apple of the eye, is but little, yet of great use, it can at once view an huge part of the heavens: A little Faith can justify; a weak hand can tie the Nuptial Knot; a weak Faith can unite to Christ as well as a strong; a little grace makes us like God; a silver penny bears the Kings Image upon it as well as a larger piece of Coin: The least dram of grace bears ⟨p. 332⟩Gods Image on it, and will God destroy his own Image? When the Temples in Greece were demolished, Xerxes caused the Temple of Diana to be preserved for the beauty of its structure: When God shall destroy all the glory of the world, and set it on fire, yet he will not destroy the least grace because it bears a print of his own likeness upon it: That little spark in the smoking flax is a ray and beam of Gods own glory.

2. Christ will not quench the beginnings of grace, because a little grace is precious as well as more: A small Pearl is of value: Though the Pearl of Faith be little, yet if it be a true Pearl it shines gloriously in Gods eyes: A Goldsmith makes reckoning of the least filings of gold, and will not throw them away: The pupilla oculi, the apple of the eye, is but little, yet of great use, it can at once view an huge part of the heavens: A little Faith can justifie; a weak hand can tye the Nuptial Knot; a weak Faith can unite to Christ as well as a strong; a little grace makes us like God; a silver penny bears the Kings Image upon it as well as a larger piece of Coyn: The least dram of grace bears ⟨p. 332⟩Gods Image on it, and will God destroy his own Image? When the Temples in Greece were demolished, Xerxes caused the Temple of Diana to be preserved for the beauty of its structure: When God shall destroy all the glory of the world, and set it on fire, yet he will not destroy the least grace because it bears a print of his own likeness upon it: That little spark in the smoaking flax is a ray and beam of Gods own glory.