Essay

 1        1|      nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days,
 2        1|           that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
 3        1|       towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely
 4        1|           to call the judgments of God upon the generations of
 5        3|            the poets. But the true God hath this attribute, that
 6        3|    attribute, that he is a jealous God; and therefore, his worship
 7        3|          unto the well pleasing of God, which is all in all) are
 8        3|        make an arbitrament between God and man. Both these extremes
 9        3|           to take heed, of rending God’s church, by two kinds of
10        3|            shall we not think that God above, that knows the heart,
11        3|          which is the ordinance of God. For this is but to dash
12        3|            blasphemy, to personate God, and bring him in saying,
13        4|             saith he) take good at God’s hands, and not be content
14        5|         man, and the security of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem
15        5|          the clearer revelation of God’s favor. Yet even in the
16       11|          For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet, towards
17       11|           a man can be partaker of God’s theatre, he shall likewise
18       11|            likewise be partaker of God’s rest. Et conversus Deus,
19       12|        barley–corn. The example of God, teacheth the lesson truly:
20       14|    wherewith princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving
21       15|     without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle, to
22       15|          eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite
23       15|          in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool
24       15|          For none deny, there is a God, but those, for whom it
25       15|          maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing
26       15|        there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble
27       15|            he thought there was no God. But certainly he is traduced;
28       15|       though they have no name for God: as if the heathens should
29       15|         religion. They that deny a God, destroy man’s nobility;
30       15|             if he be not of kin to God, by his spirit, he is a
31       15|         who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura; which
32       16|       better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion,
33       16|       contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater
34       19| sufficiency, to rely upon counsel. God himself is not without,
35       19|         For the beloved kingdom of God, was first rent, and broken,
36       26|           either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that
37       32|           wilderness, as they have God always, and his service,
38       34|     confusion; which, thanks be to God, is verified only in the
39       40|        pity, the devil should have God’s part, which is the tithe.
40       41|             are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision,
41       45|                         OF GARDENS~God Almighty planted a garden.
42       55|         way to a just sentence, as God useth to prepare his way,
43       55|        whereas they should imitate God, in whose seat they sit;