Of the conueniencie betwixt God and man. CHAPTER. XV.
1. AS soone as a man takes the Diuinitie into his consideratiō with a little attētion, he feeles a certaine delightfull leaping of the heart, witnessing that God, is God of man's heart, and that our vnderstanding is neuer so filled with pleasure, as in this consideration, the least know∣ledge wherof, as saieth the prince of Philoso∣phers, is more worth then the greatest of other things, as the least Sunne beame is brighter, then the greatest from the Moone, or starres; yea is more lightsome then the Moone, and starres alltogether, so that if any dreadfull accident as∣saie our heart, it hath presently recourse to the Di∣uinitie, protesting therin, that when all other things faile him, that onely stands his friend, and when danger threateneth, that onely is his soueraigne good, and can saue and war∣rant him.
2. This confidence, this pleasure which man's heart naturally takes in God, can spring from