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[ 1892] Vanity of the Creature without God.

TAke a beam of the Sun, the way to preserve it, is not to keep it by it self, the being of it depends upon the Sun, take the Sun away, and it perisheth for ever;* 1.1 but yet though it should come to be obscured, and so cut off for a while, yet because the Sun remains still, therefore when the Sun shines forth again, it will be renewed again. Such a thing is the Creature compared with God, If you would preserve the Creature in it self, it is impossible for it to stand, like a broken glasse without a bottom,* 1.2 it must fall and break: It is well known, that the being of an accident is more in the subject then in it self, insomuch, that to take away the subject, the very separation is a destruction to it. So it is with the Creature,* 1.3 which hath no bottom of it self, so as the sepaeration of it from God, is the destruction of it; as on the contrary, the keeping of it close unto God, (though in a case that seems to be the ruine of it) is its happinesse and perfection.

Notes

• * 1.1

  J. Preston Churches Marriage.
• * 1.2

  Esse acciden∣tis plus est in subjecto, &c. Aristo••.
• * 1.3

  Creatura sine Deo ni••il po∣test, &c. I fidor.