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2. Because the truth of Grace, is a Childs greatest Ornament. This pur-blind Gentry and Age, look to the Face, but not to the Heart; upon beauty in the face, but not upon grace in the heart. Absalom was a perfect beauty, as to his body, but a perfect black as to his soul, for he was Christless, and graceless, and Godless. Grace is the Image of God stampt upon the soul, and such a child is lovely in the eyes of God, though it be loathsom in the eyes of man. How crooked soever; deformed soever; |
2. Because the truth of Grace, is a Child's greatest Ornament. This purblind Gentry and Age, look to the Face, but not to the Heart; upon beauty in the face, but not upon grace in the heart. Absalom was a perfect beauty, as to his body, but a perfect black as to his soul, for he was Christless, and graceless, and Godless. Grace is the Image of God stamped upon the soul, and such a child is lovely in the eyes of God, though it be loathsome in the eyes of man. How crooked soever; deformed soever; |
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