1. […] our disability to conceive of God, as he is fully; and therefore he […] his knowledge into us by drops or sparkles as it were; so far is our nature swerved from the knowledge of God, that the doctrine o• God in the whole i• a doctrin• too transcendent for us. 2. This God d•th to excite affection in us toward him, as taking no delight in a dull contemplation of him, and therefore by such periphrases he doth with some […] consideration either gore us (if it be a phrase of terror or suddenly […] with some divine spa••les, that like lightning force our att••d••••. 3. The •ord doth use such descriptions out of choice of […] which is most pertinent to the question in hand: The Lord thr•ugh•ut the whole Scripture is every where respective of the names he giveth […]: ⟨p. 119⟩therein showing us, what care we should have in taking up the name or title of God. 4. It is a most forcible kind of speaking; for compendiously it importeth abundance of matter, usually more then the bare title it self would import: as here thi• phrase (He that called you) doth not only show, that it is God that is to be imitated, but it also gives an excellent reason why; taken from his free grace in calling us: and it expresseth also the manner of imitation, viz chiefly to follow God, as he is revealed in the Gospel in our calling, or when we come truly to see him in the state of grace. It is out of question, the Lord mentions our calling as one of the chiefest and excellentest benefits bestowed upon us, as that which should much stir us, & inflame, and hath great force to prevail upon us.
1. 〈…〉 our disability to c••ceive of God, as he is fully; and there••re he 〈…〉 his knowledg into us by drops or spar•les as it were; so far is our nature swarved from the knowledge of God, that the doctrine o• God in the whole i• a doctrin• too transcendent for us. 2. This God d•th to excite affection in us toward him, as taking no delight in a dull c••templation of him, and therefore by such p•riphrases he doth with some 〈…〉 consideration either gore us (if it be a phrase of terror or sudd•nly 〈…〉 with some divine spa••les, that like lightning force our att••d••••. 3. The •ord doth use such descriptions out of choice of 〈…〉 which is most pertinent to the question in hand: The Lord thr•ugh•ut the whole Scripture is every where respective of the names he giveth 〈…〉: ⟨p. 119⟩therein shewing us, what care we should have in taking up the name or title of God. 4. It is a most forcible kind of speaking; for compendiously it importeth abundance of matter, usually more then the bare title it selfe would import: as here thi• phrase (He that called you) doth not onely shew, that it is God that is to be imitated, but it also gives an excellent reason why; taken from his free grace in calling us: and it expresseth also the manner of imitation, viz ch•efly to follow God, as he is revealed in the Gospell in our calling, or when we come truely to see him in the state of grace. It is out of question, the Lord mentions our calling as one of the chiefest and excellentest benefits bestowed upon us, as that which should much stir us, & inflame, and hath great force to prevaile upon us.
