The beatitudes

5. Grace hath a soul-strengthening excellency, it enables a Excellency. 5 man to do that which exceeds the power of nature; it hath [Greek or Hebrew]¹. Grace teacheth to mortify our sins, to love our enemies, to prefer the glory of Christ before our own lives. Thus the three children by the power of grace marched in the face of death; neither the sound of the Music could allure them, nor the heat of the Furnace affright them, Dan. 3.17. They did bear up infracto animo, & prorsus chalybeo. Grace is a Christians Armour of proof, which doth more than any other Armour can; it not only defends him, but puts courage into him. Tertullian calls Athanasius, Adamas Ecclesiae, an invincible Adamant^*; grace makes a Christian not only bear suffering, but glory in suffering, Rom. 5.3. A soul steeled and animated with grace, can tread upon the Lyon and Adder, Psal. 91.13. and with the Leviathan, can laugh at the shaking of a Spear, Job 41.29. Thus doth grace infuse an heroic spirit, and derive strength ⟨p. 520⟩into a man, making him act above the Sphere of nature.

5. Grace hath a soul-strengthning excellency, it enables a Excellency. 5 man to do that which exceeds the power of nature; it hath 〈non-Latin alphabet〉¹. Grace teacheth to mortifie our sins, to love our enemies, to prefer the glory of Christ before our own lives. Thus the three children by the power of grace marched in the face of death; neither the sound of the Musick could allure them, nor the heat of the Furnace affright them,